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in·here

(ĭn-hîr′)

intr.v. in·hered, in·her·ing, in·heres

To be inherent or innate.

[Latin inhaerēre : in-, in; see in-² + haerēre, to stick.]

in·her′ence (-hîr′əns, -hĕr′-), in·her′en·cy n.

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inhere

(ɪnˈhɪə)

(foll by: in) to be an inseparable part (of)

[C16: from Latin inhaerēre to stick in, from haerēre to stick]

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in•here

(ɪnˈhɪər)

v.i. -hered, -her•ing.

to be inherent.

[1580–90; < Latin inhaerēre to remain attached =in- in-² + haerēre to stick]

inhere

Past participle: inhered
Gerund: inhering

Imperative
inhere
inhere

Present
I inhere
you inhere
he/she/it inheres
we inhere
you inhere
they inhere

Preterite
I inhered
you inhered
he/she/it inhered
we inhered
you inhered
they inhered

Present Continuous
I am inhering
you are inhering
he/she/it is inhering
we are inhering
you are inhering
they are inhering

Present Perfect
I have inhered
you have inhered
he/she/it has inhered
we have inhered
you have inhered
they have inhered

Past Continuous
I was inhering
you were inhering
he/she/it was inhering
we were inhering
you were inhering
they were inhering

Past Perfect
I had inhered
you had inhered
he/she/it had inhered
we had inhered
you had inhered
they had inhered

Future
I will inhere
you will inhere
he/she/it will inhere
we will inhere
you will inhere
they will inhere

Future Perfect
I will have inhered
you will have inhered
he/she/it will have inhered
we will have inhered
you will have inhered
they will have inhered

Future Continuous
I will be inhering
you will be inhering
he/she/it will be inhering
we will be inhering
you will be inhering
they will be inhering

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been inhering
you have been inhering
he/she/it has been inhering
we have been inhering
you have been inhering
they have been inhering

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been inhering
you will have been inhering
he/she/it will have been inhering
we will have been inhering
you will have been inhering
they will have been inhering

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been inhering
you had been inhering
he/she/it had been inhering
we had been inhering
you had been inhering
they had been inhering

Conditional
I would inhere
you would inhere
he/she/it would inhere
we would inhere
you would inhere
they would inhere

Past Conditional
I would have inhered
you would have inhered
he/she/it would have inhered
we would have inhered
you would have inhered
they would have inhered

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Verb

inhere - be inherent in something

belong to, belong - be a part or adjunct; "the uniform looks like it belonged to a museum collection"; "These pages don't belong"

inhere

verb

To have an inherent basis:

consist, dwell, exist, lie, repose, reside, rest.

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inhere

[ɪnˈhɪəʳ] VI (frm) → ser inherente (in a)

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Take the analogy of the body: The evil of the body is a disease which wastes and reduces and annihilates the body; and all the things of which we were just now speaking come to annihilation through their own corruption attaching to them and inhering in them and so destroying them.

Do they by attaching to the soul and inhering in her at last bring her to death, and so separate her from the body ?

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Descartes notoriously characterizes substance in two ways: first, as an ultimate subject of properties (that is, a subject in which properties inhere without itself inhering in anything); second, as an independent entity.

The Philosophical Review: Vol. 125, No. 2, April 2016

Assad Omar, PTI's financial expert, lauded PPP rule who performed far better than PML-N despite inhering deteriorated economy.

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One substance cannot be produced by another, the causal self-sufficiency of substance is a demonstrable property, and modes are non-essential properties inhering in their substance.

Philosophy of substance: a historical perspective

Ultimately, Santamarina calls for an "adjusting [of] our discursive models for antebellum black femininity so that modern readers may recognize the paucity of discourses (then and now) that adequately address the opportunities and limitations inhering in black women's public, paid labor" (136).

Belabored Professions: Narratives of African American Working Womanhood

While allegorical interpretation (which Auerbach refers to as figurative) is constituted by the difference inhering in the binary opposition between literality and nonliterality, figural interpretation is constituted by the relation between two terms or events and the discernment of that relationship.

Christian Figural Reading and the Fashioning of Identity

1d5 suggests that inhering in is closely related to being an affection of Since, in medieval and modern philosophy, the term 'affection' is commonly used to refer to the properties of things, it would be natural to read the inherence relation as closely related to, if not identical to, predication.

Olli Koistinen and John Biro, editors, Spinoza: Metaphysical Themes

The passions of the soul do not belong to its essence, but are accidents inhering in a substance.

The Medieval Medea

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