adherency

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Medieval Latin adhaerentia.

Noun

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adherency (countable and uncountable, plural adherencies)

  1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being adherent; adherence. [from 17th c.]
  2. (uncountable, now rare) A following; a group of adherents. [from 17th c.]
  3. (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 []

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