Crossword-Solution: RATIONALE 9 letters, 32 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Rationale a. An explanation or exposition of the principles of some
opinion, action, hypothesis, phenomenon, or the like; also, the
principles themselves.

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We have 32 clues for the answer “RATIONALE”

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logic for belief 1 answer
Why and wherefore 1 answer
Statement of reasons. 1 answer
Statement of reason 1 answer
Logical basis of fact. 1 answer
LOGICAL basis of a fact 1 answer
Exposition of basic principles. 1 answer
Explanation of principles 1 answer
Underlying reason 3 answers
Whys and wherefores 4 answers
reason why 5 answers
rationalise 14 answers
Grounds. 24 answers
AETIOLOGY 36 answers
tell the world 37 answers
extenuation 40 answers
apologia 43 answers
Vindication 43 answers
Reparation 49 answers
plea 52 answers
Intention 55 answers
Justification 55 answers
Logic 60 answers
Excuse 66 answers
Explanation 68 answers
Reasoning 70 answers
Thinking ... 75 answers
Pardon 79 answers
motivation 80 answers
Reason 84 answers
BASIS ___ 88 answers
Understanding 89 answers
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with RATIONALE (5)

The rationale of this process is, in the first place, the heat applied dries off any adhering acid, and effects more perfect union between the copper and silver, so as to enable it to bear the subsequent processes.
American Handbook of the Daguerrotype Samuel D. Humphrey 1994
The author goes on to prove by the analogy of many other natural facts that this sympathetic action between things at a distance is the true rationale of the case.
The Varieties of Religious Experience William James 2014
Another chain was bought for sixteenpence in 1430-31 for a copy of _Rationale Divinorum_, which was given by one Rolder; but such gifts were few and far between.
Old English Libraries Ernest Savage 2014
HERMOGENES: Very likely you are right; but suppose that we leave these words and endeavour to see the rationale of kalon and aischron.
Cratylus Plato 1999
The rationale of this last experiment did not receive an explanation until about the beginning of the nineteenth century of our own era.
A History of Science, Volume 1(of 5) Henry Smith Williams 1999

Quotes with RATIONALE (3)

When it comes to sexuality, romantic love plays a large part in feminine sexual scripts. Research suggests that women make sense of sexual encounters in terms of the amount of intimacy experienced; love becomes a rationale for sex. If i am in love, women often reason, sex is okay. Men more easily accept sex for its own sake, with no emotional strings necessarily attached. In this way, sexual scripts for men have involved more of an instrumental (sex for its own sake) approach…
Susan Shaw Women's Voices, Feminist Visions: Classic and Contemporary Readings
Feelings, rationale and values are the top qualities that make a person exceedingly human.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
So, the rationale of having written this book is to say an inspiring word to a lot of people who are hurting, crying and sounding defeatist, an inspiring word to millions of people who are living in pain and indigence. I wrote it for a young chap who hopes there is no life after death so that he can finally rest, for a dejected ailing woman who thinks God enjoys torturing her and for some hopeless lad who threatens his friends he’d shoot himself. I wrote it for them and for myself.
Boniface Sagini Thrills and Chills: Trudging Through Life
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Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.

Used 12 times in crossword archives (1951–2024).