Both Uses of
tantamount
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- This would be tantamount to a cooperation (one of nature's favourite devices) between the nisus formativus of the nemasperm on the one hand and on the other a happily chosen position, succubitus felix of the passive element.†
Chpt 14 *
- Another thing he commented on was equipping soldiers with firearms or sidearms of any description liable to go off at any time which was tantamount to inciting them against civilians should by any chance they fall out over anything.†
Chpt 16
Definition:
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(tantamount) being essentially equal to something