Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Warrant; security; warranty.
  • noun Guaranty; pledge; promise.
  • To save; defend.
  • To warrant; pledge; guarantee.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To warrant.
  • noun obsolete Authority; security; warranty.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb obsolete To warrant.

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Examples

  • The promise and warrantise of _Thelemia_ for my obtayning the same, bred in mee some comfort.

    Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

  • But just as Cleopatra has power, so there can be no doubt of the wily cunning -- "the warrantise of skill" -- of the sonnet-heroine, and no doubt her faithlessness was that "just cause of hate" which Shakespeare bemoaned.

    The Man Shakespeare Frank Harris 1893

  • + I can not in fight make to you suche warrantise:

    Ralph Roister Doister Nicholas Udall 1530

  • But just as Cleopatra has power, so there can be no doubt of the wily cunning ” “the warrantise of skill” ” of the sonnet-heroine, and no doubt her faithlessness was that “just cause of hate” which Shakespeare bemoaned.

    The Man Shakespeare Harris, Frank, 1855-1931 1909

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