All 6 Uses of
warrant
in
Gone with the Wind
- Scarlett, like the rest of the County, could never get used to the way small Mrs. Tarleton bullied her grown sons and laid her riding crop on their backs if the occasion seemed to warrant it.†
Chpt 1.1
- I'll warrant nothing will," he said shrewdly.†
Chpt 1.2
- He had come hastily, as many a better and worse Irishman before and since, with the clothes he had on his back, two shillings above his passage money and a price on his head that he felt was larger than his misdeed warranted.†
Chpt 1.3
- It was at Mrs. Elsing's silver musicale for the benefit of the convalescents that Rhett signed his final warrant of ostracism.†
Chpt 2.12
- But not without a struggle, I'll warrant.†
Chpt 4.36 *
- He looked so capable and calm and even the slight twist of his mouth was comforting as though it proved her agony and confusion unwarranted.†
Chpt 4.47 *
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