adv. [-LY2.] In a warrantable manner; with good warrant.

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1628.  Wither, Brit. Rememb., Pref. 699. It shall be seene, That I have warrantably called beene.

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1657.  Heylyn, Eccles. Vind., Gen. Pref. a 1. A Church so rightly constituted, so warrantably reformed.

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1703.  J. Quick, Serious Inquiry, 23. Jacob might warrantably enough have returned Leah back again unto her deceitful Father.

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1732.  E. Erskine, Serm., Wks. (1791), 641. None can warrantably lay a stone in this building, except he be regularly called.

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1856.  Mrs. Browning, Aur. Leigh, VIII. 227. And though the thing displease us, ay, perhaps Displease us warrantably.

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1918.  G. M. Trevelyan, Cornhill Mag., June, 562. From Carlyle’s later works chapter and verse for the whole doctrine of force could warrantably be quoted.

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