What is "cherished"

Usage examples of "cherished".

But as long as they subsisted, the Pagans fondly cherished the secret hope, that an auspicious revolution, a second Julian, might again restore the altars of the gods: and the earnestness with which they addressed their unavailing prayers to the throne, increased the zeal of the Christian reformers to extirpate, without mercy, the root of superstition.

There, at Room 1007, to their total surprise, was Ross Barnett, standing in the doorway of the board of trustees office with one of his cherished proclamations, blocking them from going into the room with his own body.

That paper exhibited by Dacre would furnish the needed proof of conspiracy, and then good-by, Lord Brompton, to your cherished schemes for fortune.

Certainly, to Casanova, the French Revolution represented the complete overthrow of many of his cherished illusions.

And so on, through the Memoirs, Casanova supplies his own picture, knowing very well that the end, even of his cherished memories, is not far distant.

He came fresh from romantic Dauphine, and he cherished romantic dreams concerning the Queen of Scots.

There is no careful series of deconstructionist moves in the narrative of the woman doctor, but she nonetheless undercuts the cherished ideals of male friendship, beats the seducer at his own game, and shows the most cogent, aggressive, and pragmatic thinking in a story that is otherwise male dominated.

Restrained by the severe edicts of Domitian and Nerva, cherished by the pride of Diocletian, reduced to an humble station by the prudence of Constantine, they multiplied in the palaces of his degenerate sons, and insensibly acquired the knowledge, and at length the direction, of the secret councils of Constantius.

Louis, Hortense cherished an attachment for Duroc, who was at that time a handsome man about thirty, and a great favourite of Bonaparte.

Bonaparte could not spare a few moments to reply to an old friend, I learned through Duroc the contempt he cherished for my accusers.

The Countess of Sandport lent her cherished portative wind-organ and an ensemble of musicians to enhance the dignity of the feast of welcome and the coronation ceremony itself, while the gleemen of Lord Mosstor would provide earthier entertainment during the reception and grand banquet scheduled to wind up the celebration tomorrow.

We follow the facts no matter where they lead, even though we must give up dearly cherished schemes, ideologies, soul-fancies, prejudices.

This seeming indecorum reminds us that, in a very real sense, the epic battlefield is not the place for Aeneas, that the hero of this poem is constantly forced to act against his instincts and his most cherished beliefs and ideals in a way that would be unthinkable for an Iliadic hero.

Anyone who marries any of us had better be prepared to be loved and cherished for a lifetime.

Their intensely cherished preconceptions respecting the Messiah, their persecution and crucifixion of Jesus, the glaring inconsistency of his teachings and experience with most that they expected, these things compelled their incredulity to every proof of the Messiahship of the contemned and murdered Nazarene.