All 7 Uses

preserve
in
The House of the Spirits
(Edited)

…the ship, an Englishman by the name of Longfellow, was about to throw him overboard wrapped in a flag, but Marcos, despite his savage appearance and his delirium, had made so many friends on board and seduced so many women that the passengers prevented him from doing so, and Longfellow was obliged to store the body side by side with the vegetables of the Chinese cook, to preserve it from the heat and mosquitoes of the tropics until the ship's carpenter had time to improvise a coffin.
Chpt 1

preserve = protect
Both men plunged into the work of preserving her with unguents and filling her with mortician's paste.
Chpt 1 *

preserving = protecting (keeping it as it is)
He had horse meat salted and pork smoked, and set the women to making fruit preserves.
Chpt 2

preserves = fruit cooked with sugar and sealed (usually in a jar) so it will not spoil
Nivea ordered clothes from Buenos Aires, London, and Paris—travel dresses, country dresses, party dresses, stylish hats, matching shoes and purses of lizard and suede, and various assorted other things, which remained in their tissue-paper wrappings, preserved with lavender and camphor, without the young bride's ever giving them so much as one distracted look.
Chpt 3

preserved = protected
The vacation was over and the Truebas returned to the city laden with jars of candy, preserves, boxes of fruit, cheese, pickled chicken and rabbit, and baskets full of eggs.
Chpt 5

preserves = fruit cooked with sugar and sealed (usually in a jar) so it will not spoil
She took a deep breath and the air brought her the sweet scent of peaches that were drying in the courtyard to be used in preserves.
Chpt 5 *
During the months of separation, he had been toughened by the hard job of becoming a man, while she had been shut within the walls of her house and her convent school, preserved from the wear and tear of life and nursing her romantic fantasies while she knit with Scottish wool, but the image of her dreams had nothing to do with this tall young man who was walking toward her murmuring her name.
Chpt 5

preserved = protected

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(1) (preserve as in: preserve the records)
to protect something or to keep it as it is
(2) (preserve as in: preserve the peaches)
to prepare food in a way that keeps it from spoiling
(3) (preserve as in: a wildlife preserve)
protected wildlife area
(4) (preserve as in: no longer a male preserve)
something exclusive to (someone or some group) -- such as an activity or place
(5) (preserves as in: mom made preserves)
chunks of fruit cooked with sugar (like jam) and sealed (usually in a mason jar) so it will not spoil
(6) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

preserve in The House of the Spirits (Edited)

preserve
in
The House of the Spirits
(Edited)