Cherish vs Honour - What's the difference?
cherish | honour |
To treat with tenderness and affection; to nurture with care; to protect and aid.
*, chapter=12
, title= To hold dear; to embrace with interest; to indulge; to encourage; to foster; to promote; as, to cherish religious principle.
(obsolete) To cheer, gladden.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.vi:
* 1902 , Richard Francis Weymouth, Translation of the New Testament of the Bible , Book 60, 1 Peter 2:4:
* (rfdate), Shakespeare:
* (rfdate), Milton:
As a verb cherish
is to treat with tenderness and affection; to nurture with care; to protect and aid.As a proper noun honour is
, a less common spelling of honor.cherish
English
Verb
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […], and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished .}}
- Her merry fit she freshly gan to reare, / And did of ioy and iollitie deuize, / Her selfe to cherish , and her guest to cheare [...].
honour
English
Noun
- Come to Him, the ever-living Stone, rejected indeed by men as worthless, but in God's esteem chosen and held in honour .
- If she have forgot / Honour and virtue.
- Godlike erect, with native honour clad.