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warrantably

  • a word derived from warrant.
    warrant
    noun
    authorization, sanction, or justification.

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Such speculation, if it may warrantably find encouragement under purely scientific conditions, religious thought will neither gainsay nor resist; but will find itself in no perplexity to accept.

From The Relations of Science and Religion The Morse Lecture, 1880 by Henry Calderwood

He was warrantably its usher when the habitual interrupter bawled his stereotyped: "Unconstitutional!"

From The Lincoln Story Book A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form by Henry Llewellyn Williams

How, without this, can they do it warrantably or profitably?

From The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London by

By this it is not intended that different churches holding many conflicting sentiments, and entertaining different plans of attaining even to a good end, may warrantably so unite in an ecclesiastical capacity.

From The Ordinance of Covenanting by John Cunningham

True, it is impossible to say just what the hay-loft was transformed into, but history warrantably clings to the statement that it was transformed.

From Penrod by Booth Tarkington