Literary notes about warrant (AI summary)
Warrant is a multifaceted term in literature that functions both as a promise or guarantee in dialogue and as a marker of legal or formal authority. In many texts, characters use phrases like “I warrant you” to underscore sincerity or assert confidence in what they say, lending their words an air of emphatic assurance [1, 2, 3]. At the same time, writers employ “warrant” to denote documents or authorizations that justify actions—ranging from arrest orders and death warrants to the justificatory grounds for decisions or policies [4, 5, 6]. Through these varied applications, the term enriches character interactions and narrative structure by bridging the personal, the legal, and the justificatory in subtle and effective ways [7, 8].
- “I’ll warrant you it was,” said Marilla emphatically.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery - I warrant I love you more than you do me.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare - Father, I warrant you; take you no care; I'll never trouble you, if I may spy them.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare - The warrant was served, and the colored man arrested and brought before officer Goddard.
— from Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup - He signed the death warrant of Charles I., for which he was executed at Charing Cross, October 16th, 1660.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys - We have now a sufficient number of facts to warrant
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James - It is believed that the 15 warrant which sent the poet Surrey to the scaffold was signed with this stamp, and not with Henry’s own hand.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - Who is going to decide whether conditions are bad enough today to warrant our migration?
— from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl
