| 释义 |
tenaˈbility
[f. next: see -ity.]
= tenableness.
1845S. Wilberforce in Ashwell Life (1879) I. viii. 303 Only to maintain in the abstract, the tenability of a certain position. 1865Masson Rec. Brit. Philos. 201 When one looked again at his own position..one could not see its superior tenability in the new conditions of the campaign. 1875Ruskin Fors Clav. li. 67 note, Discussing the relative tenability of insects between the fingers. |