All 4 Uses of
warrant
in
Jane Eyre
- Appearances would warrant that conclusion: and, no doubt (though, with an audacity that wants chastising out of you, you seem to question it), they will be a superlatively happy pair.†
Chpt 19
- Nor was it unwarranted: in five minutes more the grating key, the yielding lock, warned me my watch was relieved.†
Chpt 20 *
- "Oh, I'll warrant you know where to go and what to do.†
Chpt 28 *
- I have always faithfully observed the one, up to the very moment of bursting, sometimes with volcanic vehemence, into the other; and as neither present circumstances warranted, nor my present mood inclined me to mutiny, I observed careful obedience to St. John's directions; and in ten minutes I was treading the wild track of the glen, side by side with him.†
Chpt 34
Definitions:
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(warrant as in: serious enough to warrant surgery) to justify (make an action reasonable or necessary)
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(warrant as in: has a warrant to...) a document (granting the right to do something)for example:
- a document signed by a judge giving police the right to search a home
- a document signed by a judge giving police the right to arrest someone
- a document giving someone the right to buy stock shares at a given price by a given date
- a voucher documenting the right to receive payment