| 释义 |
‖ a fortiori, advb. phr.|eɪ fɔəʃɪˈɔəraɪ, fɔətɪ-|
[L. a. from, fortiori stronger (sc. argumento).]
With stronger reason, still more conclusively.
1606R. Parsons Answer to Coke iii. 52 Yet cannot hee either tacitè or à fortiore..take vnto him, all the power..which the said President and fellowes haue. 1712Shaftesbury Plastics in Second Characters (1914) 158 From hence argument a fortiori: How indecent is obscenity? 1827Blackw. Mag. Feb. 207/2 One might, a fortiori, count on his being murdered. 1855H. Spencer Psychol. (1872) I. ii. i. 146 The expression ‘substance of Mind’ can have no meaning..A fortiori, the substance of Mind cannot be known. 1961New Scientist 16 Mar. 688/1 Anyone who, being a mathematician or a scientist, loses his sight after leaving school—or, a fortiori, in mid-career—cannot easily escape feelings of deep dismay. |