Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To be inherent or innate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To be in, as an accident is in a substance; be related as an accident to a substance, as the predicate of a proposition is related to its subject, or an adjective to its substantive.
- To dwell or exist as an element; have place as a quality or attribute; belong intrinsically; be innate or characteristic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To be inherent; to stick (
in ); to be fixed in or permanently incorporated with something; to cleave (to ); to belong, as attributes or qualities.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To be
inherent ; to be anessential orintrinsic part of; to be fixed or permanently incorporated with something.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb be inherent in something
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The "substance" in which the qualities of the phenomenal world are thought to inhere is a concept emptied of all contents, and a word without a meaning.
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To the Being — must we not think? — in Which, above all, such excellence seems to inhere, that is to the Soul of the Kosmos and to the Principle ruling within it, the
The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952
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Man is learned or healthy in virtue of the accidental (qualifying) forms of learning or health that "inhere" in him.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Denials of rights and freedoms that inhere in man's worth before God are not simply a crime against humanity; they are a sin against God.
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In the wake of Pater's dictum and the gradual dissolution of established artistic practices toward the end of the 19th century - toward the "total work of art" Wagner sought in his operas - visual artists strove more and more to inhere the "condition of music" to their work.
Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Moving Pictures, Frozen Music Peter Frank 2010
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Denials of rights and freedoms that inhere in man's worth before God are not simply a crime against humanity; they are a sin against God.
9/11 2009
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In the wake of Pater's dictum and the gradual dissolution of established artistic practices toward the end of the 19th century - toward the "total work of art" Wagner sought in his operas - visual artists strove more and more to inhere the "condition of music" to their work.
Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Moving Pictures, Frozen Music Peter Frank 2010
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SuperSkeptic: In practice, are express balancing tests always under-protective of the individual in the individual interest v. government interest context such that they should be avoided whenever possible because one will inhere in any courts analysis?
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In practice, are express balancing tests always under-protective of the individual in the individual interest v. government interest context such that they should be avoided whenever possible because one will inhere in any courts analysis?
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But this book isn't about the disappointments that inhere in the traditional marriage plot.
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