Both Uses
tantamount
in
Middlemarch
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- 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
Definitions:
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(1)
(tantamount) being essentially equal to something
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)