inasmuch

Adverb

inasmuch (not comparable)

1. (dated) In like degree; in like manner; to the same or similar degree; likewise.
   • Not only so, but where they see the place of their fathers and of the just, they are hereby punished; for a chaos deep and large is fixed between them, inasmuch that a just man that hath compassion on them, cannot be admitted, nor can an unjust man if he were bold enough to attempt it, pass over it.1836, Wilson C. Rider, A Course of Lectures on Future Punishment, page 125
   • As to what in general respects the life of souls, or spirits lately decease, it was made manifest to me by much experience, that a man, when he comes into another life, does not know that he is in another life, imagining that he is still in the world, yea, in his own body; inasmuch, that when he is...1848, Emanuel Swedenborg, Selections from the Memorabilia of Swedenborg