warrantablyadv.
/ˈwɒrəntəbli/, /ˈwɒrn̩təbli/, U.S. /ˈwɔrən(t)əbli/ In a warrantable manner; with good warrant.
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society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > justification > [adverb]
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1628 G. Wither Britain's Remembrancer Pref. 699 It shall be seene, That I have warrantably called beene.
1657 P. Heylyn Ecclesia Vindicata Gen. Pref. sig. a i A Church so rightly constituted, so warrantably reformed.
1703 J. Quick Serious Inq. 23 Jacob might warrantably enough have returned Leah back again unto her deceitful Father.
1732 E. Erskine Serm. in Wks. (1791) 641 None can warrantably lay a stone in this building, except he be regularly called.
1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh viii. 331 And though the thing displease us, ay, perhaps Displease us warrantably.
1918 Cornhill Mag. June 562 From Carlyle's later works chapter and verse for the whole doctrine of force could warrantably be quoted.
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