TANTAMOUNT

a. v.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Equivalent in value, signification, or effect. A usage nearly tantamount to constitutional right. Hallam. The certainty that delay, under these circumstances, was tantamount to ruin. De Quincey.

2.
v.

To be tantamount or equivalent; to amount. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.


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