All 6 Uses of
warrant
in
Mansfield Park
- On each side there was much to attract, and their acquaintance soon promised as early an intimacy as good manners would warrant.
Chpt 5warrant = make reasonable
- …Crawford had too much sense not to feel the worth of good principles in a wife, though he was too little accustomed to serious reflection to know them by their proper name; but when he talked of her having such a steadiness and regularity of conduct, such a high notion of honour, and such an observance of decorum as might warrant any man in the fullest dependence on her faith and integrity, he expressed what was inspired by the knowledge of her being well principled and religious.
Chpt 30warrant = justify
- Henry Crawford was at Mansfield Park again the next morning, and at an earlier hour than common visiting warrants.
Chpt 31 *warrants = makes reasonable
- There was, indeed, so deep a blush over Fanny's face at that moment as might warrant strong suspicion in a predisposed mind.
Chpt 36warrant = make reasonable
- Her ideas are not higher than her own fortune may warrant, but they are beyond what our incomes united could authorise.
Chpt 44
- His happiness in knowing himself to have been so long the beloved of such a heart, must have been great enough to warrant any strength of language in which he could clothe it to her or to himself; it must have been a delightful happiness.
Chpt 48warrant = justify
Definition:
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(warrant as in: serious enough to warrant surgery) to justify (make an action reasonable or necessary)