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Inhere \In*here"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Inhered; p. pr. & vb. n. Inhering.] [L. inhaerere; pref. in- in + haerere to stick, hang. See Hesitate.] To be inherent; to stick (in); to be fixed in or permanently incorporated with something; to cleave (to); to belong, as attributes or qualities.

They do but inhere in the subject that supports them.
--Digby.

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vb. (en-past of: inhere)

Usage examples of "inhered".

What inhered among them inhered among every other growing thing on the world from which they had come.

Careless time travel could change history, shatter reality, destroy The Mind itself and the universe in which it inhered, waste everything that had been gained so far and all possibility of future gain.

If I refused to abet this unimaginable Mind, then it and the universe in which it inhered would cease to exist, fade away like the Boojum.

He had been brought up to believe that perfection inhered in everything, even people.

It had been out of her direct control for over a decade, and the very world of finance in which its power inhered had changed markedly in the interim.

I could arrive at no conclusion, other than a conviction that Amberville's mental health was endangered by the damnable thing, whatever it was, that inhered in the meadow.

It seemed that the force of gravitation inhered everywhere in the vessel's inner surface.