Inhere
[ɪn'hɪə] or [ɪn'hɪr]
Definition
(v. i.) To be inherent; to stick (in); to be fixed or permanently incorporated with something; to cleave (to); to belong, as attributes or qualities.
Edited by Antony
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Exist (as a part), be fixed (as a quality).
Editor: Thea
Definition
v.i. to stick fast: to remain firm in.—ns. Inher′ence Inher′ency a sticking fast: existence in something else: a fixed state of being in another body or substance.—adj. Inher′ent sticking fast: existing in and inseparable from something else: innate: natural.—adv. Inher′ently.
Edited by Darrell
Examples
- These philosophers are the curious reasoners concerning the material or immaterial substances, in which they suppose our perceptions to inhere. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The Minority Report of the English Poor Law Commission has striking merits and defects, but for our purposes it inheres too deeply in British conditions. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Do they by attaching to the soul and inhering in her at last bring her to death, and so separate her from the body? Plato. The Republic.
- The burden of realizing the intellectual possibilities inhering in work is thus thrown back on the school. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
Editor: Stacy