DEATH WARRANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does death warrant mean? 

• DEATH WARRANT (noun)
  The noun DEATH WARRANT has 1 sense:

1. a warrant to execute the death sentence

  Familiarity information: DEATH WARRANT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEATH WARRANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A warrant to execute the death sentence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("death warrant" is a kind of...):

warrant (a writ from a court commanding police to perform specified acts)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

 Context examples 

“Well, he drew up his own death warrant at the same time,” said Lestrade.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As for Elizabeth herself, this invitation was so far from exciting in her the same feelings as in her mother and Lydia, that she considered it as the death warrant of all possibility of common sense for the latter; and detestable as such a step must make her were it known, she could not help secretly advising her father not to let her go.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)