Found 2 items, similar to Tenable.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: tenable
tenable
adj : based on sound reasoning or evidence;
“a reasonable
argument”;
“well-founded suspicions” [syn:
well-founded]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Tenable
Tenable
\Ten"a*ble\ (t[e^]n"[.a]*b'l), a. [F. tenable, fr. tenir
to hold, L. tenere. See
Thin, and cf.
Continue,
Continent,
Entertain,
Maintain,
Tenant,
Tent.]
Capable of being held, maintained, or defended, as against an
assailant or objector, or against attempts to take or
process; as, a tenable fortress, a tenable argument.
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If you have hitherto concealed his sight,
Let it be tenable in your silence still. --Shak.
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I would be the last man in the world to give up his
cause when it was tenable. --Sir W.
Scott.
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