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Verb

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cherishing

  1. present participle and gerund of cherish

Noun

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cherishing (plural cherishings)

  1. The act by which somebody or something is cherished.
    • 1859, Richard Henry Dana, To Cuba and Back: A Vacation Voyage, page 130:
      But home and its cherishings, and revived moral force, restored him []

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