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val•id

Pronunciation: (val'id), [key]
—adj.
1. sound; just; well-founded: a valid reason.
2. producing the desired result; effective: a valid antidote for gloom.
3. having force, weight, or cogency; authoritative.
4. legally sound, effective, or binding; having legal force: a valid contract.
5. Logic.(of an argument) so constructed that if the premises are jointly asserted, the conclusion cannot be denied without contradiction.
6. Archaic.robust; well; healthy.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

valiant

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