All 6 Uses of
warrant
in
Sense and Sensibility
- Believe them to be stronger than I have declared; believe them, in short, to be such as his merit, and the suspicion—the hope of his affection for me may warrant, without imprudence or folly.†
Chpt 4
- I warrant you she is a fine size by this time.†
Chpt 26
- "Ay, my dear, I'll warrant you we do.†
Chpt 27 *
- But her condemnation of him did not blind her to the impropriety of their having been written at all; and she was silently grieving over the imprudence which had hazarded such unsolicited proofs of tenderness, not warranted by anything preceding, and most severely condemned by the event, when Marianne, perceiving that she had finished the letters, observed to her that they contained nothing but what any one would have written in the same situation.†
Chpt 29 *
- I warrant you, Miss Marianne would have been ready to wait till matters came round.†
Chpt 30
- "Oh, oh!" cried Mrs. Jennings; "very pretty, indeed! and the Doctor is a single man, I warrant you."†
Chpt 32
Definitions:
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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
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(warrant as in: serious enough to warrant surgery) to justify (make an action reasonable or necessary)