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adjective

Valid adj.

Strong; powerful; efficient. (Obs.) "Perhaps more valid arms... may serve to better us."

Having sufficient strength or force; founded in truth; capable of being justified, defended, or supported; not weak or defective; sound; good; efficacious; as, a valid argument; a valid objection. "An answer that is open to no valid exception."

(Law) Having legal strength or force; executed with the proper formalities; incapable of being rightfully overthrown or set aside; as, a valid deed; a valid covenant; a valid instrument of any kind; a valid claim or title; a valid marriage.

Synonyms: Prevalent; available; efficacious; just; good; weighty; sufficient; sound; well-grounded.

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... valid in law, and my wife has a certified copy of the register to prove that she has ...

— The Heart of Rome • Francis Marion Crawford

... it may be a surprise to learn that physical phenomena offer no irrefragable evidences of hyper-dimensionality. We could not think in higher space if consciousness were limited to three dimensions. The mathematical reality of higher space is never in question: the higher dimensions are as valid as the lower, but the hyper-dimensionality of matter is still unproven. Man's ant-like efforts to establish this as a truth ...

— Four-Dimensional Vistas • Claude Fayette Bragdon

... inherent weakness of an oligarchy out of date; and in the second place, that the victor of Lodi, the deliverer of Lombardy, then in the first flush of his scarcely tarnished glory, was a dazzling figure, calculated indeed to turn men's heads. But, after all, the only really valid excuse for them would have been that Venice lacked the means of defence, and this was not the case. She had 14,000 regular troops, 8000 marines, a good stock of guns—how well she might have resisted the French, had they, which was probable, attacked her, was to be proved in 1849. Her people, ...

— The Liberation of Italy • Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco

... would have been more wise than to reckon upon a faith which no ink and no parchment can render valid, if the Church absolve the compact. Thou ...

— Leila or, The Siege of Granada, Book II. • Edward Bulwer Lytton

... and the public health services must soon fall into line and consider mental hygiene seriously is obvious. The objection sometimes made that the practical problems are too vague, not sufficiently concrete, to justify attack by public health officials is no longer valid. In no direction, probably, could money and energy be more profitably spent during the period just ahead than in the support of a widely organized campaign for Mental Hygiene.[12] Psychiatrists can count upon ...

— A Psychiatric Milestone - Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921 • Various

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