Crossword-Solution: ADHERENT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Adherent | a. | Sticking; clinging; adhering. |
| Adherent | a. | Attached as an attribute or circumstance. |
| Adherent | a. | Congenitally united with an organ of another kind, as calyx with ovary, or stamens with petals. |
| Adherent | n. | One who adheres; one who adheres; one who follows a leader, party, or profession; a follower, or partisan; a believer in a particular faith or church. |
| Adherent | n. | That which adheres; an appendage. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ADHERENT | anagram | ANDTHERE, NEATHERD, THEREAND |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ADHERENT (5)
Gurth’s heart swelled within him; for he felt this meditated slaughter of his faithful adherent in a degree much deeper than the harsh treatment he had himself received.
Hist.) An adherent of the ÷ Church, an organization similar in some doctrines and practices to the Greek Church, in others to the Roman Catholic.
Doctor King, the warmest and almost last adherent of his family, said, that there was not a vice or crime of which he was not guilty; as for his foes, they scorned to harm him even when in their power.
This Ravenswood had resolved should be the last of his stay; but he recollected he had not yet visited the ancient and devoted servant of his house, Old Alice, and it was but kind to dedicate one morning to the gratification of so ancient an adherent.
They are economic reasons usually, and physical, and not adherent to any inevitably weaker moral fibre in the woman.
Quotes with ADHERENT (3)
The busybody (banned as sexist, demeaning to older women) who lives next door called my daughter a tomboy (banned as sexist) when she climbed the jungle (banned; replaced with "rain forest") gym. Then she had the nerve to call her an egghead and a bookworm (both banned as offensive; replaced with "intellectual") because she read fairy (banned because suggests homosexuality; replace with "elf") tales. I'm tired of the Language Police turning a deaf ear (banned as handicapism) …
Too much faith is the worst ally. When you believe in something literally, through your faith you'll turn it into something absurd. One who is a genuine adherent, if you like, of some political outlook, never takes its sophistries seriously, but only its practical aims, which are concealed beneath these sophistries. Political rhetoric and sophistries do not exist, after all, in order that they be believed; rather, they have to serve as a common and agreed upon alibi. Foolish …
It is a special blessing to belong among those who can and may devote their best energies to the contemplation and exploration of objective and timeless things. How happy and grateful I am for having been granted this blessing, which bestows upon one a large measure of independence from one's personal fate and from the attitude of one's contemporaries. Yet this independence must not inure us to the awareness of the duties that constantly bind us to the past, present and futur…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 25 times in crossword archives (1957–2022).