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English
Etymology
Latin inhaerare, from in- + haerare ‘stick’.

Pronunciation
IPA: /ɪn'hɪə/

Verb
en-verb|inher|ing

1. To be inherent; to be an essential or intrinsic part of; to be fixed or permanently incorporated with something; to cleave (to); to belong, as attributes or qualities.

#:*1985: But just as the presence of the Lord himself can inhere in a bit of bread, and bread is no more than flour and water, so the Temple is, without God’s presence, no more than bricks and stone and slime and a little gold and silver. — Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked

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