Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: adherence
IPA transcription: [ədh'ɪɹəns]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: attachment, adherence, adhesion
    Meaning: faithful support for a cause or political party or religion; "attachment to a formal agenda"; "adherence to a fat-free diet"; "the adhesion of Seville was decisive"
Usage examples
  • For the next experiment I went to a restaurant where business men are wont to gather for luncheon, men who pride themselves on their acumen and adherence to the principles of efficiency.
  • He found an ally in a gentleman named Genre, one of Laudonniere's confidants, who, while still professing fast adherence to his interests, is charged by him with plotting against his life.
  • Betty Towers had procured clothing for her--a modest supply--using her own good taste, and not disguising Cassandra's natural grace and dignity by a too-close adherence to the prevailing mode.
  • It springs from the fact that they have identified their experience with rigid adherence to their past customs. On such a basis it is wholly logical to fear intercourse with others, for such contact might dissolve custom.
  • In marked contrast to her model, who invariably exhibits the frailties and lapses of woman, Hroswitha's plays turn on the resistance of her sex to temptation, and on their steadfast adherence to duty and to vows voluntarily assumed.