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Warrantable   Listen
adjective
Warrantable  adj.  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. "His meals are coarse and short, his employment warrantable, his sleep certain and refreshing."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Warrantable" Quotes from Famous Books



... that an outburst is the only natural relief, but it is none the less fatal. There might even be method in the colonel's manner, and Loring curbed, with long-practiced hand, both tongue and temper. It would have been warrantable to say that the manner of both the General and his chief-of-staff had been too repellent to to invite calls, but he knew that, whatever the merits of the case, superior officers, like inferior papers, always ...
— A Wounded Name • Charles King



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