[-NESS.] The quality of being warrantable.
a. 1586. Sidney, Arcadia, II. xx. § 3 (1912), 279. That … you may see the noblenes of my desire to you, & the warrantablenes of your favour to me.
1663. Boyle, Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos., II. V. xix. 290. The warrantableness of which caution … was confirm’d to me not long since by a skilful Physitian.
1732. E. Erskine, Serm., Wks. 1871, I. 33. We see here the warrantableness of believing in Christ.
1898. T. Adamson, Stud. Mind in Christ, viii. 195. The warrantableness of this interpretation is fully borne out.
