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
She did not: she accepted her as a convention in which affection inhered through tradition alone....
From Joan Thursday by Louis Joseph Vance
Thus he satisfied that instinct of beauty which was born of his romantic soul, while he gratified the demand of truth which inhered from his scientific training by his minute and scrupulous exactness.
From Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant
In this waif of our gutters and ward of our sidewalk artist inhered a spirit of the most punctilious and rigid honor, the gift, perhaps, of some forgotten ancestry.
From From a Bench in Our Square by Samuel Hopkins Adams
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
