warrantable
AmericanOther Word Forms
- nonwarrantable adjective
- nonwarrantably adverb
- unwarrantable adjective
- unwarrantableness noun
- unwarrantably adverb
Etymology
Origin of warrantable
Example Sentences
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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.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 11, 2016
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.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Now then, the principle of their conjunction to the cause must be this, because it is now clothed with authority which it had not before, and which now makes it warrantable.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh
It is a warrantable inference, therefore, that the marvellous diversity in speech present in America could only have arisen by a process of evolution involving a very long period of time.
From North America by Russell, Israel C. (Cook)
In the estimation of many practical men this procedure would have been a warrantable makeshift, its sole drawback being a sacrifice of values.
From Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 by Day, Holman
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