warranting

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Noun pluralwarrantings

2 meanings of warranting

1
verb
Present participle of warrant.
The figures showed gaps warranting a deeper audit.
Officials found no evidence warranting further investigation.
Note
The -ing form does double duty. As a participle it builds progressives (the shop is warranting its laptops) and modifies nouns. As a gerund it names the act itself. Either way it keeps the verb's direct object: warranting a claim, warranting a deeper audit. The spelling is shared with the noun meaning 'a guarantee', but that noun takes a plural, warrantings, and no direct object.
2
noun
A guarantee that something is true or will be fulfilled.
A tradesman disdains to lie, abhors to oppress; yet hath uttered so many commodities by dissimulations, concealments, false warrantings, cunning frauds, as make up an oppression equal to Jeconiah's.
a. 1652, Thomas Adams, The Bad Leaven
Similarguarantee, assurance
Note
A countable noun that forms a plural, warrantings. Thomas Adams, in The Bad Leaven (before 1652), lists "false warrantings" alongside dissimulations, concealments and cunning frauds among a tradesman's sins. Here a warranting is a seller's assurance about goods. The company it keeps shows the moral weight it carried: a promise to a buyer that, made falsely, could add up to oppression.

warranting is a form of warrant

warrant, verb: To serve as sufficient reason for; to justify or call for some action or response. Full entry

Forms: warrantwarrants he/she/itwarranting -ing formwarranted past tense, past participle
Spelling: warrant → warranting: add -ing

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