"cherisher" meaning in English

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          "text": "She was to me the 'cherisher of infancy.'",
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          "text": "Sir Robert Drury was so cordial a friend that he gave to Donne and his wife a lodging rent free in his own large house in Drury Lane, 'and was also,' says Isaac Walton, 'a cherisher of his studies, and such a friend as sympathized 'with him and his, in all their joys and sorrows.'",
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        "Someone who cherishes something"
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