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Tenable

Tenable Meaning & Definition
Tenable Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Tenable?

[adj] based on sound reasoning or evidence; "a reasonable argument"; "well-founded suspicions"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Tenable: reasonable | sensible | well-founded

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Tenable In Webster's Dictionary

\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.

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