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/ɪnˈhɪə/ · verb
(uncommon) 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.
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 […].
[…]such developments are attributable in part to the tendencies for parallel 'drift' that inhere in genetically related languages because of the perseverance of typological similarities – an idea originally put forward by Sapir.
Sovereignty should inhere in the people and not the government, so governments forfeit sovereignty when they commit crimes against humanity.
The error inheres in thinking of lexical items as coherent units existing at a single level.
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Inhere means (uncommon) To be inherent; to be an essential or intrinsic part of; to be fixed or permanently incorporated with something..
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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.
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