The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cherisher \Cher"ish*er\ (ch[e^]r"[i^]sh*[~e]r), n. One who cherishes.
The cherisher of my flesh and blood.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
n. Someone who cherishes something
Usage examples of "cherisher".
The crisp silence of the seashore when absolute calm prevails is as different from the strained, sodden, padded silence of the jungle as the savour of olives from the raw insipidity of white of egg, for the cumbersome mantle of leafage is the surest stifler of noise, the truest cherisher of silence.
His instinct, emotion, affectiveness—or whatever it may be called—urged him to stand forward, seize upon Elfride, and be her cherisher and protector through life.
I am a great cherisher of the stubs of pencils, and I cannot bear to throw away a ruptured fountain pen.
In their search for permanence they become unreal, abstract, didactic, lovers of generalisation, cherishers of the dry bones of life.