inasmuch

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/ˌɪnəzˈmʌt͡ʃ/

adverb

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01
adverb
To the degree or extent that something is true.
02
adverb
Extra detail
In like degree; in like manner; to the same or similar degree; likewise.

Examples

Inasmuch as he was tired, he slept.
She agreed inasmuch as it benefited everyone.

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 2
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 4

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We must assist them inasmuch as they are our neighbors.
Inasmuch as the phase line has a negative slope at #92;bar#123;k#125;, the equilibrium is readily identified as a stable one […]
It seemed to me that the King was making uncomplimentary remarks about his dead father in the coffin, inasmuch to say that his father in the coffin was the same kind of man as what people were accusing me of being.

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Not only so, but where they see the place of their fathers and of the just, they are hereby punished; for a chaos deep and large is fixed between them, inasmuch that a just man that hath compassion on them, cannot be admitted, nor can an unjust man if he were bold enough to attempt it, pass over it.
1836, Wilson C. Rider, A Course of Lectures on Future Punishment, page 125
As to what in general respects the life of souls, or spirits lately decease, it was made manifest to me by much experience, that a man, when he comes into another life, does not know that he is in another life, imagining that he is still in the world, yea, in his own body; inasmuch, that when he is informed that he is a spirit, he is filled with wonder and astonishment, as well because he is altogether as a man, as to his senses, desires and thoughts, as from this, that he did not believe, when he lived in the world, that he was a spirit, or (as is the case with some) that a spirit could be such.
1848, Emanuel Swedenborg, Selections from the Memorabilia of Swedenborg
It seemed to me that the King was making uncomplimentary remarks about his dead father in the coffin, inasmuch to say that his father in the coffin was the same kind of man as what people were accusing me of being.
1913, United States. Army Medical Department, Bulletin, page 109
Inasmuch as the phase line has a negative slope at #92;bar#123;k#125;, the equilibrium is readily identified as a stable one […]
2005, Alpha C. Chiang and Kevin Wainwright, Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics, fourth edition, McGraw-Hill, page 500

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Origin

adverb

Univerbation of in + as + much ("to such a degree"), from Middle English in als mikel, a Northern form.

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He was extremely happy today, blank it was his special birthday celebration.