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howsofar en · ADP

Etymology

From how + so + far. Compare insofar.

Meanings

  1. To what degree.
    • But just howsofar can the complex and politically sensitive story of Nanbaree be 'translated' into simple terms and words without trivialising it? 1995, Australian Book Review,:
  2. However far.
    • These, howsofar I stray, shall work their spell, And seem to bring my feet Back to the ways remembered well, Where with old friends, old loves, I walked of yore. 1900, M. A. De Wolfe Howe, edited by Jeannette Leonard Gilder and Joseph Benson Gilder, Seasons: