Definition of Valid

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Definition of Valid

Valid

Strong; powerful; efficient.

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.

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.

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Valid Quotations

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.
Napoleon Bonaparte

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Alan Watts

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Alan Watts

I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive.
David Ogilvy

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.
Susan Sontag

We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.
Dean Koontz

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
William James

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.
Simone Weil

The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.
Henry A. Kissinger

Valid Translations

valid in Danish is gyldig
valid in Dutch is gangbaar, geldig, geldend, vigerend
valid in French is valable
valid in Hungarian is indokolt, megalapozott
valid in Italian is valevole
valid in Norwegian is gyldig

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