adherence

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   steady attachment to a rule, belief, or cause

   Strict adherence to the schedule kept the project on track.

From Middle French adhérence, from Latin adhaerentia, from adhaerere ('to stick to'), from ad- ('to') + haerere ('to stick'), from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵʰeh₁i- ('to stick').

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