Flourish vs Cherish - What's the difference?
flourish | cherish |
To thrive or grow well.
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, title= To prosper or fare well.
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To be in a period of greatest influence.
To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
* Francis Bacon
To make bold, sweeping movements with.
To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
* Alexander Pope
To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions.
* J. Watts
To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
To adorn with beautiful figures or rhetoric; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To boast; to vaunt; to brag.
A dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag.
An ornamentation.
(music) A ceremonious passage such as a fanfare.
(architecture) A decorative embellishment on a building.
To treat with tenderness and affection; to nurture with care; to protect and aid.
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, 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:
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between flourish and cherish
is that flourish is (obsolete) to boast; to vaunt; to brag while cherish is (obsolete) to cheer, gladden.As verbs the difference between flourish and cherish
is that flourish is to thrive or grow well while cherish is to treat with tenderness and affection; to nurture with care; to protect and aid.As a noun flourish
is a dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag.flourish
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Verb
(es)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage='Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.}}
- Bad men as frequently prosper and flourish , and that by the means of their wickedness.
- Bottoms of thread which with a good needle, perhaps may be flourished into large works.
- Impetuous spread the stream, and smoking flourished o'er his head.
- They dilate and flourish long on little incidents.
- (Fenton)
- (Shakespeare)
- Why do the emperor's trumpets flourish thus?
- (Alexander Pope)
Synonyms
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(es)- With many flourishes of the captured banner, they marched down the avenue.
- His signature ended with a flourish .
- The trumpets blew a flourish as they entered the church.
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 [...].