adherency
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Medieval Latin adhaerentia.
Noun[edit]
adherency (countable and uncountable, plural adherencies)
- (uncountable) The state or quality of being adherent; adherence. [from 17th c.]
- (uncountable, now rare) A following; a group of adherents. [from 17th c.]
- (countable, obsolete) That which adheres. [17th–18th c.]
- 1665 November 8, Richard Allestree, “Sermon XI. Christ-Church in Oxford […]”, in Eighteen Sermons, Whereof Fifteen Preached before the King. The Rest upon Publick Occasions, published 1669, page 198:
- ’twere happier if we would so far confute the text, that coming our selves from the dead, we would renounce communion with all Deaths adherencies […]
Further reading[edit]
- “adherency”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “adherency, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
