adherency
nounEtymology Borrowed from Medieval Latin adhaerentia.
1
The state or quality of being adherent; adherence.
2
Archaic A following; a group of adherents.
3
Obsolete That which adheres.
- ’twere happier if we would so far confute the text, that coming our selves from the dead, we would renounce communion with all Deaths adherencies […]1665 November 8, Richard Allestree, “Sermon XI. Christ-Church in Oxford […]”, in Eighteen Sermons, Whereof Fifteen Preached before the King. The Rest upon Publick Occasions, published 1669, page 198: