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inherency|ɪnˈhɪərənsɪ| Also 7 inhærency. [f. as prec.: see -ency.] = prec.; in mod. use chiefly as a quality; also quasi-concr., as an inherency of evil (nearly = ‘inherent evil’).
1601Deacon & Walker Spirits & Divels 36 You cannot congruently conclude from thence any essentiall inherencie of Diuels in the bodies of men. 1647Trapp Comm. Rom. vii. 18 Corruption is, though dejected from it's regency, yet not ejected from it's inherency. 1706Phillips, Inherency,..the Quality of that which sticks close. 1833H. Coleridge Poems I. 35 The fell inherency of sin. 1879Tourgee Fool's Err. xl. 301 His belief in the equality and inherency of human right. |