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Definition of A fortiori
1. Adverb. With greater reason; for a still stronger, more certain reason. "If you are wrong then, a fortiori, so am I"
Definition of A fortiori
1. Adjective. With stronger or greater reason; as a corollary implied by a stronger claim. ¹
2. Adverb. With stronger or greater reason; as a corollary implied by a stronger claim. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of A Fortiori
Literary usage of A fortiori
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"He believed that it might, in consideration of the almightiness of the Word of God.
which could even change the heart of the impious, and a fortiori could ..."
2. A Selection of Leading Cases in Equity: With Notes by Horace Binney Wallace, Frederick Thomas White, John Innes Clark Hare, Owen Davies Tudor (1876)
"5 ; and a fortiori where it is waived by the parties ; Calon v. Colon, 2 LK Ho.
Lo. 127, 142 And where the representation is merely of what a party intends ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence as Administered in England and Ireland by John Pitt Taylor (1887)
"... the nature of a particular abbey, the boundaries of a county, and the like,
they are not admissible.2 a fortiori, peerages, navy lists,* clergy lists, ..."
4. The People's Bible: Discourses Upon Holy Scripture by Joseph Parker (1895)
"a fortiori. THIS is a favourite form of spiritual reasoning. ... a fortiori" is
the subject. a fortiori means from one strength to another, stronger and ..."
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