tenable
adjective
capable of being held, maintained, or defended, as against attack or dispute.
tenableness
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a word derived from
tenable.
Example Sentences
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What then is to be said of the tenableness of such a position?
From On Compromise by John Morley
It was during this course of reading that for the first time a doubt came across me of the tenableness of Anglicanism.
From The Oxford Movement Twelve Years, 1833-1845 by R. W. (Richard William) Church
It was during this course of reading that for the first time a doubt came upon me of the tenableness of Anglicism, and by the end of August I was seriously alarmed.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
Striking it is, that even Lessing should cling to such definitions and employ all his ingenuity to prove their tenableness.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig by Various
