All 15 Uses of
warrant
in
The Crucible
- 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.
Act 1 (definition 1)warranted = justified
- But this is a snobbish objection and not at all warranted by the facts.
Act 1 (definition 1) *
- Mockingly quoting the warrant: "For the marvelous and supernatural murder of Goody Putnam's babies."
Act 2 (definition 2)warrant = document authorizing arrest
- He takes out a warrant.
Act 2 (definition 2)
- I have a warrant for your wife.
Act 2 (definition 2)
- CHEEVER: I am given sixteen warrant tonight, sir, and she is one.
Act 2 (definition 2)warrant = documents authorizing arrest
- I tell you true, Proctor, I never warranted to see such proof of Hell, and I bid you obstruct me not, for I—†
Act 2 (definition 1)
- PROCTOR, suddenly snatching the warrant out of Cheever's hands: Out with you.
Act 2 (definition 2)warrant = document authorizing arrest
- CHEEVER: Proctor, you dare not touch the warrant.
Act 2 (definition 2)
- PROCTOR, ripping the warrant: Out with you!
Act 2 (definition 2)
- CHEEVER: You've ripped the Deputy Governor's warrant, man!
Act 2 (definition 2)
- This warrant's vengeance!
Act 2 (definition 2)
- To Danforth: When we come to take his wife, he damned the court and ripped your warrant.
Act 3 (definition 2)
- Mr. Cheever, have warrants drawn for all of these—arrest for examination.
Act 3 (definition 2) *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.
Act 3 (definition 2)warrants = documents authorizing
Definitions:
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(1) (warrant as in: serious enough to warrant surgery) to justify (make an action reasonable or necessary)
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(2) (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