a fortiori

American  

[ah fohr-ti-oh-ree, ey fawr-shee-awr-ahy, ey fohr-shee-ohr-ahy] / ɑ ˌfoʊr tɪˈoʊ ri, eɪ ˌfɔr ʃiˈɔr aɪ, eɪ ˌfoʊr ʃiˈoʊr aɪ /

adverb

Latin.

1. for a still stronger reason; even more certain; all the more.

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a fortiori British  

/ -rɪ, eɪ ˌfɔːtɪˈɔːraɪ, ɑː /

adverb

1. for similar but more convincing reasons

   if Britain cannot afford a space programme, then, a fortiori, neither can India

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Etymology

Origin of a fortiori

Latin

Example Sentences

What may be clear to an American �lite may be less clear to the majority in Congress and, a fortiori, to the mass of electors.

From Time Magazine Archive

For, after all, is it not by now conceded that, a fortiori, if marzeydoats and doazey-doats then the invariable corallary is habeas corpus mandamus potatus?

From Time Magazine Archive

Words flunked: dioceses, cantatrice, Nabuchodonosor, a fortiori, conchoidal.

From Time Magazine Archive

It follows that a parapet is thick enough if it suffices to stop rifle bullets, since the same thickness will a fortiori keep out shrapnel bullets or splinters of shell.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various

Hence, a fortiori, had the living beings now entombed in the rocks been placed in the same climate with those now alive upon the globe, the like result would have followed.

From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Hitchcock, Edward