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pro tanto en · ADV

Etymology

From Latin prō tantō (“so great/much”).

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) To that extent.
    • If 'making explicit' conveys this, then pro tanto it is a bad term. 1962, J. L. Austin, How To Do Things With Words, OUP paperback edition edition, page 69:
    • Their vain fears only substitute other and worse evils for those which they are idly apprehensive of: while every restraint on the freedom of conduct of any of their human fellow creatures, (otherwise than by making them responsible for any evil actually caused by it), dries up pro tanto the principal fountain of human happiness, and leaves the species less rich, to an inappreciable degree, in all that makes life valuable to the individual human being. 1870, John Stuart Mill, chapter IV, in The Subjection of Women, 3rd edition, Random House, published 2002, →ISBN, page 229: