Word Meanings - ADHESION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The molecular attraction exerted between bodies in contact. See Cohesion. (more info) 1. The action of sticking; the state of being attached; intimate union; as the adhesion of glue, or of parts united by growth, cement, or the like. 2. Adherence;
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The molecular attraction exerted between bodies in contact. See Cohesion. (more info) 1. The action of sticking; the state of being attached; intimate union; as the adhesion of glue, or of parts united by growth, cement, or the like. 2. Adherence; steady or firm attachment; fidelity; as, to error, to a policy. His adhesion to the Tories was bounded by his approbation of their foreign policy. De Quincey. 3. Agreement to adhere; concurrence; assent. To that treaty Spain and England gave in their adhesion. Macaulay.
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- DEVOTIONALLY
In a devotional manner; toward devotion. - CLEAVER
One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces. - CLEAVELANDITE
A variety of albite, white and lamellar in structure. - DEVOTIONAL
Pertaining to, suited to, or used in, devotion; as, a devotional posture; devotional exercises; a devotional frame of mind. - CLEAVAGE
The quality possessed by many crystallized substances of splitting readily in one or more definite directions, in which the cohesive attraction is a minimum, affording more or less smooth surfaces; the direction of the dividing plane; a fragment - CLEAVE
clifian; akin to OS. klibon, G. kleben, LG. kliven, D. kleven, Dan. klæbe, Sw. klibba, and also to G. kleiben to cleve, paste, Icel. 1. To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast; to cling. My bones cleave to my skin. Ps. cii. 5. The diseases of - ENDEARMENT
The act of endearing or the state of being endeared; also, that which manifests, excites, or increases, affection. "The great endearments of prudent and temperate speech." Jer. Taylor. Her first endearments twining round the soul. Thomson. - CLEAVERS
A species of Galium , having a fruit set with hooked bristles, which adhere to whatever they come in contact with; -- called also, goose grass, catchweed, etc. - CLEAVABLE
Capable of cleaving or being divided. - DEVOTION
1. The act of devoting; consecration. 2. The state of being devoted; addiction; eager inclination; strong attachment love or affection; zeal; especially, feelings toward God appropriately expressed by acts of worship; devoutness. Genius animated - ADHESION
The molecular attraction exerted between bodies in contact. See Cohesion. (more info) 1. The action of sticking; the state of being attached; intimate union; as the adhesion of glue, or of parts united by growth, cement, or the like. 2. Adherence; - DEVOTIONALITY
The practice of a devotionalist. A. H. Clough. - CONSTANCY
1. The state or quality of being constant or steadfast; freedom from hange; stability; fixedness; immutabilitu; asm the constancy of God in his nature and attributes. 2. Fixedness or firmness of mind; persevering resolution; especially, firmness - FIDELITY
Faithfulness; adherence to right; careful and exact observance of duty, or discharge of obligations. Especially: Adherence to a person or party to which one is bound; loyalty. Whose courageous fidelity was proof to all danger. Macaulay. The best - DEVOTIONALIST; DEVOTIONIST
One given to devotion, esp. to excessive formal devotion. - ADHERENCE
1. The quality or state of adhering. 2. The state of being fixed in attachment; fidelity; steady attachment; adhesion; as, adherence to a party or to opinions. Syn. -- Adherence, Adhesion. These words, which were once freely interchanged, are now - ATTACHMENT
1. The act attaching, or state of being attached; close adherence or affection; fidelity; regard; anas, an attachment to a friend, or to a party. 2. That by which one thing is attached to another; connection; as, to cut the attachments of a muscle. - SELF-DEVOTION
The act of devoting one's self, or the state of being self- devoted; willingness to sacrifice one's own advantage or happiness for the sake of others; self-sacrifice. - REATTACHMENT
The act of reattaching; a second attachment. - INADHESION
Want of adhesion. - MISDEVOTION
Mistaken devotion. - UNDEVOTION
Absence or want of devotion. - UNCONSTANCY
Inconstancy. "The unconstancy of the foundation." Fuller. - INCONSTANCY
The quality or state of being inconstant; want of constancy; mutability; fickleness; variableness. For unto knight there was no greater shame, Than lightness and inconstancie in love. Spenser.