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adherencies

adherencies is the plural of adherency.

Meaning of adherency

Noun

adherency (countable and uncountable, plural adherencies)

  1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being adherent; adherence.
  2. (archaic, uncountable) A following; a group of adherents.
  3. (countable, obsolete) That which adheres.
    • ’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 […]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

Questions about adherencies

What is adherencies the plural of?
Adherencies is the plural of adherency.

Words near adherencies in the dictionary

  1. Adherbijan
  2. adhere
  3. adhered
  4. adherence
  5. adherences
  6. adherencies
  7. adherency
  8. adherend
  9. adherends
  10. adherens junction
  11. adherens junctions

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