Tenable
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Capable of being held, naintained, or defended, as against anassailant or objector, or againts attempts to take or process; as, atenable fortress, a tenable argument.If you have hitherto concealed his sight, Let it be tenable in yoursilence still. Shak.I would be the last man in the world to give up his cause when it wastenable. Sir W. Scott.
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(of an opinion or position) able to be defended successfully or held for a particular period of time:
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