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well(-)ˈfounded, ppl. a.
a. Built on a good and solid base. lit. and fig.
c1369Chaucer Dethe Blaunche 922 (Fairf.) And which a goodely softe speche Had that swete,..So frendely, and so wel y-grounded, Vp al resoun so wely-founded [Fondée sur toute raison]. 1671Woodhead St. Teresa i. xxiv. 164 My Prayer began to settle itself, like a well-founded Building. 1706Congreve Pindar. Ode to Queen 5 Britain's Queen,..Fix'd on the Base of Her well-founded State. 1821Craig Lect. Drawing, etc. vii. 366 We will for this purpose establish a set of well-founded principles for our standard.
b. esp. of a belief, sentiment, statement, etc.: Having a foundation in fact; based on good or sure grounds or reasons.
1782F. Burney Cecilia viii. vii, Her jealousy, already but too well founded, received every hour the poisonous nourishment of fresh conviction. 1814Scott Wav. xl, A well-founded disbelief in the co-operation of the English Jacobites kept many Scottish men of rank from his standard. 1827― Two Drovers ii, The Cumbrian Squire, who had entertained some suspicions of his manager's honesty, was taking occasional measures to ascertain how far they were well-founded. 1855[see founded 1]. 1905F. Harrison Chatham iii. 42 There was no personal malignity in his accusations, he believed them to be well-founded.
Hence well-ˈfoundedly adv.; well-ˈfoundedness.
1888Sat. Rev. 27 Oct. 486/2 They had prided themselves, not too well-foundedly, that..they had far the better of England. 1920Glasgow Herald 25 Feb. 9/3 There can be no discussion..with regard to..the well-foundedness of the charges. 1970B. Brewster tr. Althusser & Balibar's Reading Capital (1975) iii. i. 212 Interpretations..whose well-foundedness will, I hope, emerge later in the paper. |