adherency

Foundational texts of any ideology are the basis by which adherency is obtained.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

It's this kind of language which leads commentators such as Andrew Rawnsley to identify Brown's growing adherency to Blairism.

A false dawn? 2008

It's this kind of language which leads commentators such as Andrew Rawnsley to identify Brown's growing adherency to Blairism.

Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2008

North and alienation from that of the South, -- points on which he might, perhaps, be more inclined to dilate, were it not, that, at this late hour of the day, Northern adherency might read like the mere worship of success.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 Various

But if Douglas 'advocacy of the Texas expansion exposed him to charges of a slave adherency, nothing could be said against his cry for the taking of Oregon.

Children of the Market Place Edgar Lee Masters 1909

Having gained political control of Salt Lake City and given it good municipal government, we were able to hold a local adherency; but hundreds of Mormons, who still vote the American city ticket, vote for the Church in state elections, because, though they want reform, they are not willing to risk the punishment of their relatives and the leaders of the Church to attain that reform.

Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft Frank Jenne Cannon 1902

Though so really free and independent, he prided himself in his songs on being a reactionist and a Jacobite—on persistent sentimental adherency to the cause of the Stuarts—the weakest, thinnest, most faithless, brainless dynasty that ever held a throne.

Robert Burns as Poet and Person. November Boughs 1892

Though so really free and independent, he prided himself in his songs on being a reactionist and a Jacobite -- on persistent sentimental adherency to the cause of the Stuarts -- the weakest, thinnest, most faithless, brainless dynasty that ever held a throne.

November Boughs ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose 1855

Jacobite -- on persistent sentimental adherency to the cause of the

Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy Walt Whitman 1855