warrantable

[wawr-uhn-tuh-buhl, wor-]

adjective

1. capable of being warranted.

2. (of deer) of a legal age for hunting.

Other Word Forms

• nonwarrantable adjective
• nonwarrantably adverb
• unwarrantable adjective
• unwarrantably adverb
• unwarrantableness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of warrantable¹

First recorded in 1575–85; warrant + -able

Example Sentences

The tremendous forest of Sherwood stretched round the tent-forest further than the eye could see—and this was full of wild boars, warrantable stags, outlaws, dragons, and Purple Emperors.

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"I know what fewmets are,” said the boy with interest "They are the droppings of the beast pursued. The harborer keeps them in his horn, to show to his master, and can tell by them whether it is a warrantable beast or otherwise, and what state it is in.”

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Scholars and survivors of the society are frequently determined, beyond what is warrantable by the facts, to see the spectre of Birchism in any full-throated contemporary manifestation of conservatism.

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How he found a "Warrantable Deer."

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The huntsman blows his horn, and soon the welkin rings with a chorus of brass instruments; the tufters dash into covert, and anon the cheerful note of Ponto or Gripper gives warning that a warrantable fox is on foot—well, of course, he couldn't be on horseback, but this is merely a venatorial façon de parler.

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Related Words

• acceptable 
• admissible 
• allowable 
• defensible 
• lawful 
• legitimate 
• logical 
• probable 
• proper 
• reasonable 
• understandable 
• valid