forasmuch as en · CCONJ
Pronunciation
- /fɒɹəzˈmʌtʃ æz/ (UK)
Meanings
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(archaic) Inasmuch 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 2:
- (obsolete) So far as; with regard to so much as.
Synonyms
seeing that · being that · sithence · being · forthy · given that · as · when · sith · for · in regard · being as · as · on account of · since · given that · in that · forwhy · as long as · due to the fact that · for that · now that · forasmuch as · because · inasmuch as · ∵ · seeing that