Synonyms:
care_for, cherish, hold_dear, treasure
Meaning: be fond of; be attached to
Usage examples
"And why can't you cherish her, even though she is happy?" asked Mary.
"Oh, give it me, and I will nourish and cherish it," cried the princess.
"Take them, my child," he said, "and cherish them, for they have cost your poor father his life."
Of course, intellect, too, is transient and not eternal, but you know why I cherish a partiality for it.
Whether it be a boy or girl his mother will have suffered much because of him, and for her sister's sake you will pray her to cherish the babe.
"I could almost wish it had been otherwise," said Will, thoughtfully. "I could have been so glad to comfort her, and cherish her, if she had been in trouble."
We may cherish animosities, we may declare imperishable distances, we may plot and counter-plot, make war and "fight to a finish;" the net tightens for all that.
I think that democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves, they will seek it, cherish it, and view any privation of it with regret.
As a first instance, consider the antipathies which men cherish on no better grounds than that persons whose religious opinions are different from theirs, do not practise their religious observances, especially their religious abstinences.
It was the fashion these days for orators and public men to vie with one another in expressing the extremes of patriotism, and Peter would read these phrases, and cherish them; they came to seem a part of him, he felt as if he had invented them.