inhere
verb (used without object)
to exist permanently and inseparably in, as a quality, attribute, or element; belong intrinsically; be inherent.
inhered
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past participleof inhere.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof inhere.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
inhereverb (used without object)to exist permanently and inseparably in, as a quality, attribute, or element; belong intrinsically; be inherent.
Example Sentences
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By contrast, Aristotle believed that color inhered in objects.
From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2024
How much more of this sacred character inhered in the heroes who created nationwide railroad systems, vast steelmaking consolidations, monopolies of oil and coal!
From Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington by Clinton W. (Clinton Wallace) Gilbert
Qualities had independent existence as much as substances, but when any new substances were produced, the qualities rushed forward and inhered in them.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Surendranath Dasgupta
She did not: she accepted her as a convention in which affection inhered through tradition alone....
From Joan Thursday by Louis Joseph Vance
In that mysterious sound inhered the fetich power.
From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Robert Hamill Nassau
