| 单词 |
cherishment |
| 释义 |
cherishment|ˈtʃɛrɪʃmənt|
Also 6 cherysshemente.
[f. cherish v. + -ment.]
†1. pl. Ways of cherishing, indulgences. Obs.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (1531) 28 As in clothynge, meates, drynkes, vayne trifyls or other cherysshements, to the whiche we be full prone & redy to fall.
2. The process or fact of cherishing; the bestowal of affectionate care or fostering tenderness.
1561T. N[orton] Calvin's Instit. ii. 131. 1591 Spenser Tears Muses 573 With rich bountie and deare cherishment. 1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman D'Alf. ii. 345 The cherishments and blandishments that God bestowes upon them. 1804H. J. Colebrooke Husbandry Bengal (1806) 130 The relation of master and slave appears to impose the duty of protection and cherishment on the master. 1823T. Jefferson Writ. (1830) IV. 370 The cherishment of the people was our principle.
†b. concr. Nourishment, sustenance. Obs.
1593Nashe Christ's T. (1613) 73 They that spoyled my house, and left me no kind of cherishment for me and my son. 1689G. Harvey Curing Dis. by Expect. vii. 57 Defect of cherishment. |
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