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

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

And if not outlines, a fortiori not details of mass, which have all the complexity of the outline multiplied a thousand fold, and drawn in fainter colors.

From Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) by Ruskin, John

Finally, a physico-chemical explanation of the motions of the amoeba, and a fortiori of the behavior of the Infusoria, seems impossible to many of those who have closely observed these rudimentary organisms.

From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur