English

Adjective

a fortiori ‎(comparative more a fortiori, superlative most a fortiori)

1. With stronger or greater reason; as a corollary implied by a stronger claim.

Adverb

a fortiori ‎(comparative more a fortiori, superlative most a fortiori)

1. With stronger or greater reason; as a corollary implied by a stronger claim.
   • 1954: Gilbert Ryle, Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures, 1953, dilemma vii: Perception, page 103 (The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press)

     Now starting and stopping cannot themselves have starts or stops, or, a fortiori, middles either.

   • Saint Ambrose, De sacramentis, IV, 5-16

     If the word of the Lord Jesus is so powerful as to bring into existence things which were not, then a fortiori those things which already exist can be changed into something else.

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See also

• a posteriori
• a priori