well-grounded

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Well-grounded motives of interest ought certainly to suggest the same kind of conduct to all the powers that have possessions in the New World.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 by Various

Well-grounded indeed were her fears, for in the middle of the night she was aroused by loud knocking at her door and rough voices demanding admittance.

From Stranger Than Fiction Being Tales from the Byways of Ghosts and Folk-lore by Lewes, Mary L.

Though with firm sinewy Limbs he may stand On the enduring Well-grounded earth, All he is ever Able to do, Is to resemble The oak or the vine.

From The Poems of Goethe Translated in the original metres by Bowring, Edgar Alfred