inhere

C2 Topic:Actions & Processes

UK /ɪnˈhɪə/ See IPA manual

Freq #141939

Meanings

1

verb
To be inherent; to be an essential or intrinsic part of; to be fixed or permanently incorporated with something.

He [Massinger] inherits the traditions of conduct, female chastity, hymeneal sanctity, the fashion of honour, without either criticizing or informing them from his own experience. In the earlier drama these conventions are merely a framework, or an alloy necessary for working the metal; the metal itself consisted of unique emotions resulting inevitably from the circumstances, resulting or inhering as inevitably as the properties of a chemical compound.
2

verb
be inherent in something

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Multiword verbs with inhere

inhere in Prepositional verb C2

to exist as an essential part or quality of something

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inhere in
to exist as an essential part or quality of something

Verb + preposition/particle

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Latin haereō Latin inhaereōbor. English inhere Borrowed from Latin inhaerēre (“stick in, stick to, inhere to”), from in (“in”) + haereō (“stick”); see hesitate. Compare adhere, cohere.

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# inhere

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2
**Part of speech:** verb
**IPA (UK):** /ɪnˈhɪə/
**Frequency rank:** 141939

## Meanings
1. To be inherent; to be an essential or intrinsic part of; to be fixed or permanently incorporated with something.
2. be inherent in something

## Examples
- He [Massinger] inherits the traditions of conduct, female chastity, hymeneal sanctity, the fashion of honour, without either criticizing or informing them from his own experience. In the earlier drama these conventions are merely a framework, or an alloy necessary for working the metal; the metal itself consisted of unique emotions resulting inevitably from the circumstances, resulting or inhering as inevitably as the properties of a chemical compound.

## Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Latin haereō Latin inhaereōbor. English inhere Borrowed from Latin inhaerēre (“stick in, stick to, inhere to”), from in (“in”) + haereō (“stick”); see hesitate. Compare adhere, cohere.

## Topics
- Actions & Processes

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