inhere
verbUK /ɪnˈhɪə/
Etymology Borrowed from Latin inhaerēre (“stick in, stick to, inhere to”), from in (“in”) + haereō (“stick”); see hesitate. Compare adhere, cohere.
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Uncommon To be inherent; to be an essential or intrinsic part of; to be fixed or permanently incorporated with something.
- He [Massinger] inherits the traditions of conduct, female chastity, hymeneal sanctity, the fashion of honour, without either criticizing or informing them from his own experience. In the earlier drama these conventions are merely a framework, or an alloy necessary for working the metal; the metal itself consisted of unique emotions resulting inevitably from the circumstances, resulting or inhering as inevitably as the properties of a chemical compound.1932, T. S. Eliot, “Philip Massinger”, in Essays on Elizabethan Drama, USA: Harcourt Brace & World, Inc., published 1960, page 151:
- We had already been claimed by the split infinitives of Star Trek, were already preparing to boldly go into a world where ethics, so far from inhering in the very structure of the cosmos, was a matter of personal taste […].2001, Will Self, Feeding Frenzy:
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- […]such developments are attributable in part to the tendencies for parallel 'drift' that inhere in genetically related languages because of the perseverance of typological similarities – an idea originally put forward by Sapir.2008, Zev Handel, “What is Sino-Tibetan? Snapshot of a Field and a Language Family in Flux”, in Language and Linguistics Compass, volume 2, number 3, →DOI, pages 422-441:
- Sovereignty should inhere in the people and not the government, so governments forfeit sovereignty when they commit crimes against humanity.5 January 2009, John Kraemer, Larry Gostin, The Guardian:
- The error inheres in thinking of lexical items as coherent units existing at a single level.2018, David P. Medeiros, “ULTRA: Universal Grammar as a Universal Parser”, in Frontiers in Psychology, volume 9, →DOI, pages 155-2:
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