Word.ws English Dictionary

forsomuch as

forsomuch as conjunction: synonym of forasmuch as.

Conjunction

forsomuch as

  1. (obsolete) Synonym of forasmuch as.
    • But foꝛſomuch as now not caring foꝛ thy oth, noꝛ regarding the ſafetie of thy hoſtages, thou haſt ſo fondlie ⁊ lewdlie paſſed thy bounds: I am to require thée, that thou doo retire and withdꝛaw theſe excurſes of ſtrangers; […]1587 January, Giraldus Cambrensis [i.e., Gerald of Wales], translated by Iohn Hooker, “[The Irish Historie […]] The Besieging and Taking of the Citie of Dublin”, in Raphael Holinshed, The Second...
    • The curious and exact care he had of his body, is an authenticall witneſſe of it, forſomuch as hee vſed the moſt laſcivious meanes that then were in vſe, […]1603, Michel de Montaigne, “The History of Spurina”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 418
    Synonyms:
    forasmuch as

Synonyms of forsomuch as

Questions about forsomuch as

What does forsomuch as mean?
Forsomuch as means synonym of forasmuch as.
What part of speech is forsomuch as?
Forsomuch as is a conjunction.

Words near forsomuch as in the dictionary

  1. Forsman
  2. Forsmans
  3. forsmite
  4. Forsmo
  5. forsomuch
  6. forsomuch as
  7. Forson
  8. Forsons
  9. forsook
  10. forsookest
  11. forsooth

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: forsomuch as (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “forsomuch as.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/forsomuch_as. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.