adhere

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To that opinion I still adhere, and am like to continue adhering.

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  1. intransitive verb To stick fast by or as if by suction or glue.
  2. intransitive verb To remain devoted to or be in support of something: adhered to her beliefs.
  3. intransitive verb To carry out a plan, scheme, or operation without deviation: We will adhere to our plan.
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  • He produced several disks of furry "Apply these to your hooves; they will adhere, and muffle the impact How about wearing one of these on your mouth?" —  The Source of Magic
  • Both the ideals to which western secularists adhere, and the problems with which they wrestle, owe an incalculable debt to the prescripts - or rather the lack of them - of Christianity. —  New Statesman
  • A standard to which no big vendors adhere is as intimidating as a tiger with its teeth and claws removed. —  The Register
  • "One result that comes through is that people who have self-control over life in general are more likely to adhere," he said. —  Medindia Health News
  • There is only God's reward and his punishment for those who adhere or fail to adhere to his Commandments written down in black and white in the Exodus. —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. French adhérer, from Latin adhaerēre, to stick to : ad-, ad- + haerēre, to stick.

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  1. from French adhérer, from Latin adhærere, from ad, to, + hærere, stick, past participle hæsus. Cf. cohere, inhere, hesitate.
 

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