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Cherisher vs Cherishes - What's the difference?

cherisher | cherishes |

As a noun cherisher

is someone who cherishes something.

As a verb cherishes is

third-person singular of cherish.

cherisher

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Someone who cherishes something
  • *{{quote-book, year=1797, author=Charles and Mary Lamb, title=The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb IV, chapter=Written on the Day of my Aunt's Funeral, edition= citation
    • , passage=She was to me the 'cherisher of infancy.' }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1891, author=Henry Morley, title=The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3, chapter=Footnote 3, edition= citation
    • , passage=Sir Robert Drury was so cordial a friend that he gave to Donne and his wife a lodging rent free in his own large house in Drury Lane, 'and was also,' says Isaac Walton, 'a cherisher of his studies, and such a friend as sympathized 'with him and his, in all their joys and sorrows.' }}

    cherishes

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (cherish)

    • cherish

    English

    Verb

  • To treat with tenderness and affection; to nurture with care; to protect and aid.
  • *, chapter=12
    • , title= 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 .}}
  • 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:
    • Her merry fit she freshly gan to reare, / And did of ioy and iollitie deuize, / Her selfe to cherish , and her guest to cheare [...].