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to inhere

to inhere

1 9.9
To be a natural and permanent part of something
  • verb
  • /ɪnˈhɪr/
  • Formal
translation icon : inherir
  • The tradition of storytelling inhere in many cultures around the world.
  • inhere in matter
  • power that inhere

Examples

  • Tragedy, that is, does not inhere in the actions themselves.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Clearly, power is thought to inhere in these narrow structures.

    Academic text (2003)
  • As an accident, it requires a subject in which to inhere; else, it would have no existence.

    Academic text (2004)
  • Indeed, they are sacred precisely because they shelter a secret, a silence that must inhere at the heart of the visible thing.

    Academic text (2010)
  • Frankly, hazards also inhere in the conventional model of public services delivered by public agencies.

    Academic text (2017)
  • Americans can affirm their core values yet recognize the hubris that inheres in them.

    Academic text (2011)
  • The aura is impressionistic; it inheres in the perception of natural objects, such as a branch, rather than in the objects themselves.

    Academic text (2016)
  • Peter Linebaugh argues, "commoning is embedded in a labor process; it inheres in a particular praxis of field, upland, forest, marsh, coast."

    Academic text (2017)
  • Cornhill to Grand Cairo's satire is part of a narrative tradition of representation that inheres within nineteenth-century British geopolitics in the Mediterranean.

    Academic text (2016)
  • Trust and loyalty often inhere in a strong friendship.

Synonyms

to reside
vsto inhere
  • Formal
52 4.0

To be a quality or power present in something

emphasizes permanent essential existence rather than mere presence
to inhere in
vsto inhere
  • Formal
1 9.4

To be a natural and necessary part of something

is identical in meaning but appears without the following preposition

Phrasal Verbs

to inhere in
  • Formal
1 9.4

To be a natural and necessary part of something

Surface Forms

inhere infinitive
inhering present participle
inheres third person singular
inherited past
inherited past participle

Morphology

inhere = in + here

Although historically composed of a prefix and a root meaning 'stick', modern learners cannot derive 'exist essentially' from 'in' + 'here' (and the adverb 'here' is unrelated), so the meaning is not transparently built from visible English parts.

Etymology

The word inhere comes from Latin parts in- 'in' and haerere 'to stick', and it is like the word adhere, which also means 'to stick'. So, if a quality inheres in something, it is 'stuck inside' it and is always part of it.