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Definition of Cherisher
1. n. One who cherishes.
Definition of Cherisher
1. Noun. Someone who cherishes something ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cherisher
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cherisher
Literary usage of Cherisher
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Calcutta Christian Observer (1840)
"His majesty said, in like manner you will not doubt of seeing your cherisher,
and not one will be there but will speak to God without an instructor. ..."
2. A smaller Hindustani and English dictionary by DUNCAN. FORBES (1861)
"... nourisher, cherisher; educated, cherished, ... cherishing, the cherisher. p.
... m. the cherisher; an epithet of ..."
3. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1843)
"... thou shalt in nowise reckon those who are killed in the cause of God, dead ;
but they are living near their cherisher, and receiving daily bread. ..."
4. The Puritans: Or, The Church, Court, and Parliament of England, During the by Samuel Hopkins (1860)
"So shall you indeed show yourself to be a brother, yea, a father, a feeder and
cherisher of Christ's poor servants and people; a laborer yourself and a ..."
5. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb by Maurice Henry Hewlett, Laurence Binyon, Edward James Hewlett, William Randolph Hearst, Jonathan Swift, Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, Edward Verrall Lucas, Frederick Madison Smith, Mariano Tomás (1905)
"cherisher of infancy." From Lloyd's first sonnet in his Pris- cilla Farmer
volume (also, later, in Coleridge's Poems), line 13 :— Lamb's Aunt Hetty, ..."
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