Meanings
- archaicInasmuch as, because, since.
But, that Woodman and that Farmer, though they work unceasingly, work silently, and no one heard them as they went about with muffled tread: the rather, forasmuch as to entertain any suspicion that they were awake, was to be atheistical and traitorous.
1859, Charles Dickens, “The Period”, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book I (Recalled to Life), page 2Synonyms: as, given that, seeing that, as, as long as, because, being, being as
- obsoleteSo far as; with regard to so much as.
Synonyms & antonyms
conjunctionInasmuch as, because, since.
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