Cherish vs Uncherished - What's the difference?
cherish | uncherished |
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:
Not cherished.
*{{quote-book, year=1855, author=David Lester Richardson, title=Flowers and Flower-Gardens, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The reason why the primrose was said to "die unmarried," is, according to Warton, because it grows in the shade uncherished or unseen by the sun, who was supposed to be in love with certain sorts of flowers. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1908, author=George Barr McCutcheon, title=The Man From Brodney's, chapter=, edition=
, passage=We must go through life unloved and uncherished , bringing princes into the world, seeing happiness and love just beyond our reach all the time. }}
As a verb cherish
is to treat with tenderness and affection; to nurture with care; to protect and aid.As an adjective uncherished is
not cherished.cherish
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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 [...].
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