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adhering

verb

Etymology

From Middle English *adherynge, adherande, present participle of Middle English *adheren, from Old French *adherer, aderer and Medieval Latin adhaereō (“adhere”, verb), equivalent to adhere + -ing.

  1. derived from adhaereō — “adhere”
  2. derived from *adherer✻
  3. derived from *adheren✻
  4. inherited from *adherynge✻

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of adhere

    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:adhering.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at adhering. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at adhering. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at adhering

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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