to inhere
- verb
- /ɪnˈhɪr/
- Formal
- The tradition of storytelling inhere in many cultures around the world.
- inhere in matter
- power that inhere
Examples
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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 be a quality or power present in something
To be a natural and necessary part of something
Phrasal Verbs
Surface Forms
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.