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warrantable
CIDE DICTIONARY
warrantable, a.
Authorized by commission, precept, or right; justifiable; defensible; as, the seizure of a thief is always warrantable by law and justice; falsehood is never warrantable. [1913 Webster]
"His meals are coarse and short, his employment warrantable, his sleep certain and refreshing."
[1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
warrantable, adj.
1 able to be warranted.
2 (of a stag) old enough to be hunted (5 or 6 years).
1 able to be warranted.
2 (of a stag) old enough to be hunted (5 or 6 years).
Derivative
warrantableness n. warrantably adv.
THESAURUS
warrantable
admissible, allowable, balanced, condonable, defensible, deserved, dispensable, due, equitable, even, evenhanded, excusable, exemptible, expiable, fair, fair and square, fit, forgivable, good, inoffensive, just, justifiable, justified, lawful, legal, legitimate, legitimized, level, licit, meet, meet and right, merited, pardonable, permissible, proper, reasonable, remissible, right, right and proper, rightful, sanctionable, square, tenable, unobjectionable, venial, vindicable, warranted
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