Crossword clues for a fortiori
The Collaborative International Dictionary
A fortiori \A for`ti*o"ri\ [L.] (Logic & Math.) With stronger reason.
Wiktionary
a. With stronger or greater reason; as a corollary implied by a stronger claim. adv. With stronger or greater reason; as a corollary implied by a stronger claim.
WordNet
adv : for a still stronger, more certain reason; "if you are wrong then, a foritori, so am I" [syn: with greater reason, with more reason]
Usage examples of "a fortiori".
A striking a fortiori case is that of the strange mediaeval legend of Robert the Devil.
When he woke up in the hospital again, the smell of ether was gone and Dunbar was lying in pajamas in the bed across the aisle maintaining that he was not Dunbar but a fortiori.
The law allows some harms to be intentionally inflicted, and a fortiori some risks to be intentionally run.
And of course the same goes, a fortiori, for the parts of a living body.
If the former ground is adopted, it admits that a single person may sacrifice another to himself, and a fortiori that a people may.
Gaius said that it was unjust that the fault of children or slaves should be a source of loss to their parents or owners beyond their own bodies, and Ulpian reasoned that a fortiori this was true of things devoid of life, and therefore incapable of fault.
Therefore, all assertions about the actual strength of the Illuminati should be regarded, a fortiori, as suspect, like the voters' polls released by candidates before elections.
This whole American war and a fortiori these defeats which scarcely affect the enormous British naval force at all, is essentially irrelevant: furthermore, the defeats themselves can readily be explained (and I have no doubt the ministry is busily explaining them at this moment to a shocked, an outraged public opinion).
In all negotiation, and a fortiori all Oriental negotiation, each side was expected to extract all possible profit from the balance of forces: if either did not do so it was because there was some hidden weakness ?
And the infamy attaching to the executioner arises from what he does: the language of all nations condemns the man and a fortiori his act: which helps to make my point more forcibly.
You will not doubt my word when I tell you that nothing had changed in the Neo-Gothic brick Church of the Sacred Heart or, a fortiori, on the left side-altar.