a fortiori

[ah fohr-ti-oh-ree, ey fawr-shee-awr-ahy, ey fohr-shee-ohr-ahy] / ɑ ˌfoʊr tɪˈoʊ ri, eɪ ˌfɔr ʃiˈɔr aɪ, eɪ ˌfoʊr ʃiˈoʊr aɪ /

ADVERB

with more reason

Synonyms

WEAK

all the more all the more so from the stronger more than ever still more with greater reason

Example Sentences

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"That said... that does not mean that the individuals who were targeted, and a fortiori the person who died, were themselves involved in trafficking. I want to be absolutely clear on that".

From BBC • May 15, 2026

What may be clear to an American �lite may be less clear to the majority in Congress and, a fortiori, to the mass of electors.

From Time Magazine Archive

For, after all, is it not by now conceded that, a fortiori, if marzeydoats and doazey-doats then the invariable corallary is habeas corpus mandamus potatus?

From Time Magazine Archive

Words flunked: dioceses, cantatrice, Nabuchodonosor, a fortiori, conchoidal.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some still maintain that since the state can inflict the superior penalty of death for serious crime, a fortiori also the lesser punishment of sterilization.

From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Callan, Charles Jerome