adherency arch.
(ædˈhɪərənsɪ)
Also 7 adhærency.
[ad. L. adhærentia, n. of action and state, f. adhærent-em pr. pple. of adhærē-re: see adhere and -ncy.]
1. The quality or state of being adherent; companionship; attachedness.
| 1647 Jer. Taylor Lib. Prophes. xviii. 235 By vertue of its adherency and remanency in their flesh; it did that work. 1692 Beverley Concil. Disc. 8 Christ..bare as deep a share of adherency in our sin, as could consist with an unspotted Purity from any inherency of sin in himself. 1820 Coleridge Lett. Convers. &c. I. viii. 51 The passions of the adherency to the former [the Stuarts], if not the adherency itself, [was] extant in our own fathers' or our grandfathers' times. |
† 2. That which is adherent; adhering matter or circumstance. Cf. L. adhærentia. Obs.
| 1608 Topsell Serpents 748 Not lana, wooll, but lamygo [? lanugo], that is, a vapoury adhærency of a thing which flyeth from the strokes of hammers upon hot burning iron. 1657 T. Reeve God's Plea 30 The compleatest actions of men have an adhærency of evill cleaving to them. 1681 Whole Duty of Nations 60 The reputation of Religion..often suffers by those unnecessary adherencies. |
† 3. An adhering party; a following. Obs.
| 1582–8 Hist. James VI (1804) Not againes the Lords..or onie of thair adherencis in this laitt actioun. 1633 Bp. Hall Hard Texts 399 A great part of the Romane adherencie shall fall off from her. 1662 H. Stubbe Indian Nectar 4 The late changes in our Nation have disengaged me from my former adherencies. |