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)

1. Inasmuch, seeing (that).
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 1:1, column 1:

     Foraſmuch as many haue taken in hande to ſet foorth in order a declaration of thoſe things which are moſt ſurely beleeued among vs […]

2. (obsolete) So far as; with regard to so much as.
   • 1651, George Digby, Letters Concerning Religion:

     Forasmuch as belongs to that eating, we are neither defrauded of any good by not eating, nor enriched with any good by the eating of the sanctified bread, which, forasmuch as it hath of materials, goes into the belly.

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.