Both Uses of
tantamount
in
Middlemarch
- I considered that the strong wish you expressed to go there, when an adequate sum was furnished, was tantamount to an engagement that you would remain there for life.†
Chpt 5 *
- Will was in a defiant mood, his consciousness being deeply stung with the thought that the people who looked at him probably knew a fact tantamount to an accusation against him as a fellow with low designs which were to be frustrated by a disposal of property.†
Chpt 6
Definition:
being essentially equal to something