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Webster 1913 Edition


Cherisher

Cher′ish-er

(chĕr′ĭsh-ẽr)
,
Noun.
One who cherishes.
The
cherisher
of my flesh and blood.
Shakespeare

Webster 1828 Edition


Cherisher

CHERISHER

,
Noun.
One who cherishes; an encourager; a supporter.

Definition 2024


cherisher

cherisher

English

Noun

cherisher (plural cherishers)

  1. Someone who cherishes something
    • 1797, Charles and Mary Lamb, “Written on the Day of my Aunt's Funeral”, in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb IV:
      She was to me the 'cherisher of infancy.'
    • 1891, Henry Morley, “Footnote 3”, in The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3:
      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.'