cherishing

noun

cherishing

noun
1

The act by which somebody or something is cherished.

  • But home and its cherishings, and revived moral force, restored him[…]1859, Richard Henry Dana, To Cuba and Back: A Vacation Voyage, page 130:
Derived terms
cherishingly, uncherishing

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