أوْلَى (بـِ): أحَقّ، أحْرَى worthier, more deserving; more entitled (to); more appropriate, more proper, more suitable, more adequate, more suited, more becoming

مِنْ بَابِ أوْلَى، بـِحُجّةٍ أوْلَى with greater reason, with all the more reason, the more so, a fortiori