All 15 Uses
warrant
in
The Crucible
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- Evidently the time came in New England when the repressions of order were heavier than seemed warranted by the dangers against which the order was organized.
p. 7.4warranted = justified
- But this is a snobbish objection and not at all warranted by the facts.
p. 35.4 *
- Mockingly quoting the warrant: "For the marvelous and supernatural murder of Goody Putnam's babies."
p. 71.4warrant = document authorizing arrest
- He takes out a warrant.
p. 72.9
- I have a warrant for your wife.
p. 72.9
- CHEEVER: I am given sixteen warrant tonight, sir, and she is one.
p. 73.1warrant = documents authorizing arrest
- PROCTOR, suddenly snatching the warrant out of Cheever's hands: Out with you.
p. 76.8warrant = document authorizing arrest
- CHEEVER: Proctor, you dare not touch the warrant.
p. 76.9
- PROCTOR, ripping the warrant: Out with you!
p. 76.9
- CHEEVER: You've ripped the Deputy Governor's warrant, man!
p. 76.9
- This warrant's vengeance!
p. 77.4
- To Danforth: When we come to take his wife, he damned the court and ripped your warrant.
p. 90.4
- Mr. Cheever, have warrants drawn for all of these—arrest for examination.
p. 94.4 *warrants = documents authorizing something
- I have signed seventy-two death warrants; I am a minister of the Lord, and I dare not take a life without there be a proof so immaculate no slightest qualm of conscience may doubt it.
p. 99.8warrants = documents authorizing
- I tell you true, Proctor, I never warranted to see such proof of Hell, and I bid you obstruct me not, for I—†
p. 75.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(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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(2)
(warrant as in: serious enough to warrant surgery) to justify (make an action reasonable or necessary)
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(3)
(warrant as in: I warrant it) to promise, guarantee, or indicate certainty of something
- (4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)