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

Now then, the principle of their conjunction to the cause must be this, because it is now clothed with authority which it had not before, and which now makes it warrantable.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

But if a thousand or more facts have occurred, since the Creation of the World, in which those Laws appear to have been over-ruled, or suspended, is such a conclusion then warrantable?

From Inspiration and Interpretation Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford by Burgon, John William