Both Uses of
tantamount
in
Bleak House
- "Indeed, it has been made so hard," he goes on, "to have any idea what that party was up to in combination with others that until the loss which we all deplore I was gravelled—an expression which your ladyship, moving in the higher circles, will be so good as to consider tantamount to knocked over.†
Chpt 55-57
- Is that tantamount, sir, to acceptance, or rejection, or consideration?†
Chpt 64-65 *
Definition:
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(tantamount) being essentially equal to something