warrantable

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From his point of view it was perfectly warrantable--he had no sense of any obligation which would prevent his adding to his critical observation of her--but from Miss Bell's?

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  1. Capable of being warranted, in any sense; justifiable; defensible; lawful. In ancient times all women which had not husbands nor fathers to govern them had their tutors, without whose authority there was no act which they did warrantable. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, v. 73. It is not a warrantable curiosity to examine the verity of Scripture by the concordance of human history. Sir T. Browne, Religio Medici, i. 29. He can not be fairly blamed, and not a pound should be deducted from his warrantable value, simply because he now did what any other young horse in the world would have felt to be his proper course. R. D. Blackmore, Cripps the Carrier, liii.
  2. Specifically Of sufficient age to be hunted: as, a warrantable stag (that is, one in its sixth year). It will be either by great good luck or by great perseverance on the huntsman's part that a warrantable deer will be found at all while there is light to hunt him by. Nineteenth Century, XX. 509.

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