forasmuch

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English for-as-moche, vor asemoche, for as miche, equivalent to for +‎ as +‎ much. === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /fɒɹəzˈmʌtʃ/ === Adverb === forasmuch (not comparable) Inasmuch, seeing (that). (obsolete) So far as; with regard to so much as. ==== Usage notes ==== Only used in the conjunctional phrase forasmuch as. The phrase is now somewhat formal or archaic. In early use the second as was occasionally omitted, and in rare instances it was replaced by that. ==== Synonyms ==== forsomuch ==== References ==== John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “forasmuch”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.