Word Meanings - VINDICABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Capable of being vindicated. -- Vin`di*ca*bil"i*ty, n.

TENABLENESS
See TENABILITY
DEFENSIBLENESS
Capability of being defended; defensibility. Priestley.
VINDICABLE
Capable of being vindicated. -- Vin`di*ca*bil"i*ty, n.
DEFENSIBLE
1. Capable of being defended; as, a defensible city, or a defensible cause. 2. Capable of offering defense. Shak.
JUSTIFIABLE
Capable of being justified, or shown to be just. Just are the ways of God, An justifiable to men. Milton. Syn. -- Defensible; vindicable; warrantable; excusable; exculpable; authorizable. -- Jus"ti*fi`a*ble*ness, n. -- Jus"ti*fi`a*bly, adv.
TENABLE
Capable of being held, naintained, or defended, as against an assailant or objector, or againts attempts to take or process; as, a tenable fortress, a tenable argument. If you have hitherto concealed his sight, Let it be tenable in your silence
INTENABLE
Incapable of being held; untenable; not defensible; as, an intenable opinion; an intenable fortress. Bp. Warburton.
INDEFENSIBLE
Not defensible; not capable of being defended, maintained, vindicated, or justified; unjustifiable; untenable; as, an indefensible fortress, position, cause, etc. Men find that something can be said in favor of what, on the very proposal,