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tenable |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Tenable \Ten"a*ble\, a. [F. tenable, fr tenir to hold L. tenere. See {Thin}, and cf {Continue}, {Continent}, {Entertain}, {Maintain}, {Tenant}, {Tent}.] Capable of being held, naintained, or defended, as against an assailant or objector, or againts attempts to take or process; as a tenable fortress, a tenable argument. If you have hitherto concealed his sight, Let it be tenable in your silence still --Shak. I would be the last man in the world to give up his cause when it was tenable. --Sir W. Scott. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: tenable adj : based on sound reasoning or evidence; "a reasonable argument"; "well-founded suspicions" [syn: {well-founded}]
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