[f. TENABLE + -NESS.] The quality of being tenable.
1647. Sprigge, Anglia Rediv., IV. vii. (1854), 266. Distrusting their own strength, or the garrison’s tenableness.
1798. Washington, Lett., Writ. 1836, XI. 289. I leave the matter entirely to his own discretion, with your advice to advance or halt, according to the tenableness of his ground and circumstances.
1849. J. H. Newman, Disc. Mired Congregat., Ded. A doubt … of the tenableness of the theological theory.
