Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of giving physical comfort or pleasure.
- noun Encouragement; support.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Encouragement; comfort.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete
encouragement ;comfort
Etymologies
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Examples
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They didn't have to earn this cherishment; it is their birthright.
Dominique Browning: Chinese Tiger Mothers? Kittens Compared to French Mothers. Why Any Fear Model Is the Wrong Way to Go Dominique Browning 2011
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They didn't have to earn this cherishment; it is their birthright.
Dominique Browning: Chinese Tiger Mothers? Kittens Compared to French Mothers. Why Any Fear Model Is the Wrong Way to Go Dominique Browning 2011
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They didn't have to earn this cherishment; it is their birthright.
Dominique Browning: Chinese Tiger Mothers? Kittens Compared to French Mothers. Why Any Fear Model Is the Wrong Way to Go Dominique Browning 2011
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They didn't have to earn this cherishment; it is their birthright.
Dominique Browning: Chinese Tiger Mothers? Kittens Compared to French Mothers. Why Any Fear Model Is the Wrong Way to Go Dominique Browning 2011
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They didn't have to earn this cherishment; it is their birthright.
Dominique Browning: Chinese Tiger Mothers? Kittens Compared to French Mothers. Why Any Fear Model Is the Wrong Way to Go Dominique Browning 2011
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Some things go beyond words, even for a divorced 55-year-old librarian who's dedicated his life to the furtherance and cherishment of words.
Archive 2006-09-01 ____Maggie 2006
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Some things go beyond words, even for a divorced 55-year-old librarian who's dedicated his life to the furtherance and cherishment of words.
LA Times ~ Delta Librarian ____Maggie 2006
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Not the type which for whatever circumstances the wind blows allows the cherishment to be blown in that wind.
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"The cherishment of the people was our principle," wrote Jefferson.
Public Opinion Walter Lippmann 1931
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Plantation system, cherishment of slaves in as a civilizing agency gang and task methods in severity in, question of soil exhaustion in towns and factories hampered in growth by westward spread of
American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime Ulrich Bonnell Phillips 1905
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