(v. t.) To treat with tenderness and affection; to nurture with care; to protect and aid.
(v. t.) To hold dear; to embrace with interest; to indulge; to encourage; to foster; to promote; as, to cherish religious principle.
Example Sentences:
(1) However the imagery is more complex, because scholars believe it also relates to another cherished pre-Raphaelite Arthurian legend, Sir Degrevaunt who married his mortal enemy's daughter.
(2) I hope this two days off gives him the stimulus.” The omissions left a manager who cherishes control at risk of falling foul of the “law of Murphy” that he had already bemoaned this season.
(3) Some of their most cherished objectives, such as parliamentary reform, have been left as roadkill by the juggernauts of Tory and Labour hostility.
(4) Chelsea have an unorthodox way of gathering trophies but it is a successful one – and they will cherish this as one of their great nights.
(5) If we do not act now we will consign the cherished principles of equality before the law and access to justice to the dustbin of history, and as we approach the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta that would be an ironic tragedy.” An MoJ spokesperson said: “We note the judgment and will carefully consider our next steps.
(6) Miliband said: "Our struggle is to fight to preserve, protect and defend the best of the services we cherish because they represent the best of the country we love.
(7) This has been a season of distress, disorder and the dismissal of an iconic manager for Chelsea but now comes a night that could go a long way to making it one for the club to cherish.
(8) He said: "If we truly cherish our kids, more than money, more than our celebrities, we must must give them the greatest level of protection possible and the security that is only available with a properly trained – armed – good guy."
(9) The Fulham forward, who spent the second half of last season on loan at PSV Eindhoven, can cherish one of the goals of his life.
(10) Many developing nations cherish the legally binding commitments that Kyoto places on industrialised nations and fiercely oppose proposals that would change this.
(11) It is hard to explain the significance of the man to those who may not have been born at the time or informed of the freedom struggle, or born witness to his dignity, pride, humility and moral authority, but I and so many others revered him as a father and cherished his existence as a living secular saint.
(12) They cherish the stability and the peaceful lives they are able to live.
(13) So they cherish this small part of the city that belongs to them.
(14) But it may help steer a few more people away from Starbucks in the direction of Costa or one of those small independent coffee shops, book shops, grocers (etc, etc) whom we should cherish while they cling on in the face of unfair competition.
(15) It is rarely easy being the new girlfriend, particularly when the previous one was so cherished, and 2012 – the new girlfriend in town – has a tough act to follow.
(16) She said: “We struggle to comprehend the warped and twisted mind that sees a room packed with young children not as a scene to cherish but an opportunity for carnage.
(17) This survey was designed to study cherished objects and other memorabilia as "reminiscentia," (i.e., as inducers of reminiscence).
(18) But very few of Friedman's most cherished proposals were ever put in to practice.
(19) In an address at the Woodrow Wilson Center in August 2007 , Obama criticized the Bush administration for putting forward a "false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we demand", and swore to provide "our intelligence and law enforcement agencies with the tools they need to track and take out the terrorists without undermining our constitution and our freedom".
(20) A spokesman for Prince Charles said: “The red squirrel is a most cherished and iconic national species, and, as patron of the Red Squirrel Survival Trust, the Prince of Wales keenly supports all efforts to conserve and promote their diminishing numbers.
Gladden
Definition:
(v. t.) To make glad; to cheer; to please; to gratify; to rejoice; to exhilarate.
(v. i.) To be or become glad; to rejoice.
Example Sentences:
(1) His ideas about the revival of politics in the Facebook age find almost no echo among Ukippers, while whathe has said in the recent past about the future of the state would not exactly gladden hearts in Jaywick.
(2) It is not easy to see much that gladdens the heart in the story of Ian Watkins, the former rock star who has had his appeal against his 29-year prison sentence for child abuse thrown out .
(3) It was a statement to gladden the heart: "I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer."
(4) Pint from £2.90 Golden Ball A pub to gladden the heart of any Guardian reader, this.
(5) He said then that a negative decision would "gladden [Poland's] enemies".
(6) The Washington consensus, which Ferguson describes in The Ascent of Money as a wishlist "that would have gladdened the heart of a British imperial administrator", looks irretrievably battered - and yet he refuses to blame any erstwhile masters of the universe.
(7) A very bad start, it was not necessary.” Manchester United’s Luke Shaw out for months with double fracture Read more At kick-off the sight of Anthony Martial lining up as the centre-forward for the 19-year-old’s first start gladdened the football romantic.
(8) But the television pictures of grateful pats on the back gladdened Tory hearts.
(9) It cannot be said that the Palace of Westminster has in recent years overburdened the population of Britain with heart-gladdening news.
(10) Brian Gladden, the chief financial officer, said the macroeconomic climate "is clearly impacting our results.
(11) It’s one that will gladden the heart of so many British people who seek his counsel, and who wish they didn’t have to do at a foreigner’s remove: desperate as ever for a new target to have a frothingly weird pop at, he has turned to us.
(12) Nonetheless, the egalitarian heart isn't gladdened.
(13) Coogan, in his Partridge guise, said: “I am both thrilled, humbled, gladdened and excited to be bringing Mid Morning Matters back to Sky Atlantic .
(14) A comparison of the likely loser and winner in the election should gladden the heart of anyone who believes in upward social mobility.
(15) In different ways Keane, Ronaldo, Henry and Touré uplifted their teams and gladdened the hearts of football lovers.
(16) But it does gladden the heart how the constantly evolving Edinburgh fringe keeps defying attempts to control and corporatise it.