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adherence
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Adherence \Ad*her"ence\, n. [Cf. F. adh['e]rence, LL. adhaerentia.]
The quality or state of adhering.
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The state of being fixed in attachment; fidelity; steady attachment; adhesion; as, adherence to a party or to opinions.
Syn: Adherence, Adhesion.
Usage: These words, which were once freely interchanged, are now almost entirely separated. Adherence is no longer used to denote physical union, but is applied, to mental states or habits; as, a strict adherence to one's duty; close adherence to the argument, etc. Adhesion is now confined chiefly to the physical sense, except in the phrase ``To give in one's adhesion to a cause or a party.''
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "attachment to a person, support," from Middle French adhérence, from Latin adhaerentia, noun of action from adhaerentem (nominative adhaerens), present participle of adhaerare (see adherent (adj.)).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A close physical union of two objects. 2 faithful support for some cause. 3 (context medicine English) An extent to which a patient continues an agreed treatment plan.
WordNet
n. faithful support for a religion or cause or political party [syn: attachment, adhesion]
the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition [syn: adhesiveness, adhesion, bond]
Wikipedia
Adherence may refer to:
- Adherence (medicine), the obedience of the patient to the medical advice
- Religious adherence, when people follow a particular religion
Related:
- Adhesion, the tendency of dissimilar particles or surfaces to cling to one another
- Adhesion (medicine), abnormal bands of tissue that grow in the human body
- Adherent point, mathematical notion, also known as closure point, point of closure or contact point
Usage examples of "adherence".
In America, because of the special conditions which prevailed there, unique in Western history, the word politics came to mean adherence to a group or an idea from a chicane motive.
But European possibilities still exist within Russia, because in certain strata of the population adherence to the great organism of the Western Culture is an instinct, an Idea, and no material force can ever wipe it out, even though it may be temporarily repressed and driven under.
Church, not with speculations, but by demanding adherence to the old practice with regard to lapsed members.
Their adherence to the old system of Church discipline involved a reaction against the secularising process, which did not seem to be tempered by the spiritual powers of the bishops.
The limits of the latter therefore seem to be indefinitely extended, whilst on the other hand tradition, and polemics too in many cases, demanded an adherence to the shortest formula.
Terrible as were the losses of the Huguenots by fire and sword, considerable as were the defections from their ranks of those who found in the reformed Catholic church a spiritual refuge, still greater was the loss of the Protestant cause in failing to secure the adherence of such minds as Dolet and Rabelais, Ronsard and Montaigne, and of the thousands influenced by them.
The adherence of the last named to the Reforming party is perhaps the most significant sign of the times.
In 1559 Convocation asserted the adherence of the clergy to the ancient faith.
More creditable to the cause was the adherence of men like Sir William Cecil, later Lord Burghley, a man of cool judgment and decent conversation.
Beyond the last-mentioned river, Edessa was distinguished by a firm and early adherence to the faith.
They were far from condemning all the Christians who were accused before their tribunal, and very far from punishing with death all those who were convicted of an obstinate adherence to the new superstition.
Montanists, who deviated into heresy by their strict and obstinate adherence to the rigor of ancient discipline.
Would we measure their adherence to a new containment regime in months, weeks, or just days?
The translations have all been made with care, but for the sake of younger pupils simplified and modernized as much as close adherence to the sense would permit.
While his own adherence to Bushido seemed likely to ruin him, the chamberlain, by defying its tenets, had risen to a position of unchallenged power.