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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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

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

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

In the Middle Ages, they reasoned thus: If rebellion against the prince deserves death, a fortiori does rebellion against God.

From The Inquisition A Critical and Historical Study of the Coercive Power of the Church by Conway, Bertrand L. (Bertrand Louis)

So a fortiori rice does not conform to the climate of northern Japan, where the frost arrives often very early and the whole crop is thereby damaged, except a few precocious varieties.

From An Introduction to the History of Japan by Hara, Katsuro