Inhere

Quick meaning: Inhere is a verb meaning (uncommon) To be inherent; to be an essential or intrinsic part of; to be fixed or permanently incorporated with something.

Meaning

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

Example Sentences

The error inheres in thinking of lexical items as coherent units existing at a single level.

Sovereignty should inhere in the people and not the government, so governments forfeit sovereignty when they commit crimes against humanity.

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.

Word Forms

• inheres
• inhering
• inhered

Related Words

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