inhere

• inhære (archaic)

From Latin inhaerēre, present active infinitive of inhaereō (“stick in, stick to, inhere to”), from in (“in”) + haereō (“stick”); see hesitate. Compare adhere, cohere.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈhɪə/
• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

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inhere (third-person singular simple present inheres, present participle inhering, simple past and past participle inhered)

1. (uncommon) To be inherent; to be an essential or intrinsic part of; to be fixed or permanently incorporated with something.
   • 2001, Will Self, Feeding Frenzy:

     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 […] .

   • 5 January 2009, John Kraemer, Larry Gostin, The Guardian:

     Sovereignty should inhere in the people and not the government, so governments forfeit sovereignty when they commit crimes against humanity.

• adhere
• cohere
• inherent
• inherence
• inherency

• “inhere”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “inhere”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

• Henrie, herein, rheine