Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state of existing or being fixed in something; inherence.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The state of existing, of being inherent, in something; inherence.

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  • noun inherence (act of inhering)

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Examples

  • His to-be-completed dissertation is on the inhesion of religion, aboriginality and local politics among the Tayal 泰雅people.

    Next Meet Up June 13 Michael Turton 2009

  • His to-be-completed dissertation is on the inhesion of religion, aboriginality and local politics among the Tayal 泰雅people.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Michael Turton 2009

  • And we may see that, in the phrase of the Scripture, the denomination of sinners follows the imputation as well as the inhesion of sin; which will give light unto that place of the apostle,

    The Doctrine of Justification by Faith 1616-1683 1965

  • But there is another more proper signification of the word: hamartia being put for hamartōlos, — “sin,” for a “sinner,” (that is, passively, not actively; not by inhesion, but imputation); for this the phrase of speech and force of the antithesis seem to require.

    The Doctrine of Justification by Faith 1616-1683 1965

  • And if it be not his by inhesion, it can be his no other way but by imputation.

    The Doctrine of Justification by Faith 1616-1683 1965

  • Now, it is not required of the severest judge, that, as a judge, he should hate the guilty person, no, although he be guilty originally by inhesion, and not by imputation.

    The Doctrine of Justification by Faith 1616-1683 1965

  • A substance, in contrast with an accident, is a being which subsists in itself, and does not merely inhere in another being as in a subject of inhesion.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

  • Nor would the accidents thus separated, and supernaturally supported, lose their character as accidents, since they would still retain their essential property, i.e. natural exigence of inhesion.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

  • It should be noted that while accidents by inhesion modify substance, they are witnesses to its nature, being the medium whereby the mind, through a process of abstraction and inference, builds its analogical concepts of the constitution of substances.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

  • Both kinds of form, it may be noted, though they specify their resultant essences, or quasi-essences, are individuated by the quantified matter in the one case, and the subject of inhesion in the other.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

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