Cherish vs Cherishable - What's the difference?
cherish | cherishable |
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:
Capable of, or suitable for, being cherished.
* 1983 , Kenneth R. Mitchell, Herbert Anderson, All Our Losses, All Our Griefs: Resources for Pastoral Care (page 128)
* 1997 , Ed van Hinte, Eternally yours: visions on product endurance
As a verb cherish
is to treat with tenderness and affection; to nurture with care; to protect and aid.As an adjective cherishable is
capable of, or suitable for, being cherished.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 [...].
cherishable
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Building a cherishable memory is equally necessary in divorce situations.
- He said that objects first become cherishable , after which they get nostalgic value. Finally they end up being antiques.