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English
Etymology
From warrant + -able.
Adjective
warrantable (comparative more warrantable, superlative most warrantable)
- Justifiable, just, proper.
- Authorized by warrant or right.
- Of animals: having reached a sufficient age to be hunted.
- a warrantable deer
1958, T H White, chapter II, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book I (The Sword in the Stone):They are the droppings of the beast pursued. The harbourer keeps them in his horn, to show to his master, and can tell by them whether it is a warrantable beast or otherwise, and what state it is in.
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