warrantable

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Scholars and survivors of the society are frequently determined, beyond what is warrantable by the facts, to see the spectre of Birchism in any full-throated contemporary manifestation of conservatism.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 11, 2016

The tremendous forest of Sherwood stretched round the tent-forest further than the eye could see—and this was full of wild boars, warrantable stags, outlaws, dragons, and Purple Emperors.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

In the estimation of many practical men this procedure would have been a warrantable makeshift, its sole drawback being a sacrifice of values.

From Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 by Day, Holman

But that imagination, which I have included in all the above definitions, they would have to consist in assenting without warrantable grounds.

From The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero by Yonge, Charles Duke

But as to wandering through the woods on foot, that was done only for good and warrantable reasons, not to see what they could see.

From Pilgrim Trails A Plymouth-to-Provincetown Sketchbook by Warner, Frances Lester