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warrantable

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[wawr-uhn-tuh-buhl, wor-] / ˈwɔr ən tə bəl, ˈwɒr- /

adjective

  1. capable of being warranted.

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


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Etymology

Origin of warrantable

First recorded in 1575–85; warrant + -able


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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

Joint procedure with such can be warrantable only when directed to an end good in itself, and when accompanied by an expressed or understood disapproval of the character and authority of the civil power.

From The Ordinance of Covenanting by John Cunningham

The omission of a bill of rights in this State has given occasion to an inference that the omission was equally warrantable in the constitution for the United States.

From Essays on the Constitution of the United States by Paul Leicester Ford

It would be pleasant but perhaps not altogether warrantable, when one considers the essential nature of the Union.

From An American at Oxford by John Corbin

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