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pro tanto

pro tanto adverb: to that extent.

Adverb

pro tanto (not comparable)

  1. To that extent.
    • Their vain fears only substitute other and worse evils for those which they are idly apprehensive of: while every restraint on the freedom of conduct of any of their human fellow creatures, (otherwise than by making them responsible for any evil actually caused by it), dries up pro tanto the...1870, John Stuart Mill, chapter IV, in The Subjection of Women, 3rd edition, Random House, published 2002, →ISBN, page 229
    • If 'making explicit' conveys this, then pro tanto it is a bad term.1962, J. L. Austin, How To Do Things With Words, OUP paperback edition edition, page 69

Origin of pro tanto

From Latin prō tantō (“so great/much”).

Questions about pro tanto

What does pro tanto mean?
Pro tanto means to that extent.
What part of speech is pro tanto?
Pro tanto is an adverb.

Words near pro tanto in the dictionary

  1. pro shop
  2. pro shops
  3. pro skirt
  4. pro skirts
  5. pro skub
  6. pro tanto
  7. pro tem
  8. pro tem.
  9. pro tempore
  10. pro time
  11. pro tip

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