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tantamounting

tantamounting is the present participle and gerund of tantamount.

Meaning of tantamount

Verb

tantamount (third-person singular simple present tantamounts, present participle tantamounting, simple past and past participle tantamounted)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To amount to as much; to be equivalent.
    • […] and yet this will not tant’amount to an immediate Divine inſtitution for Deacons, and how can it then for Presbyters ?a. 1657, Jeremy Taylor, “Of the Sacred Order and Offices of Episcopacy, By Divine Institution, Apostolical Tradition, and Catholick Practice”, in Συμβολον Ἠθικο-Πολεμικον: or a Collection of...

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Questions about tantamounting

What is tantamounting the present participle and gerund of?
Tantamounting is the present participle and gerund of tantamount.

Words near tantamounting in the dictionary

  1. Tantalus sphinx
  2. Tantalus sphinxes
  3. tantaluses
  4. tantamount
  5. tantamounted
  6. tantamounting
  7. tantamounts
  8. Tantangara
  9. tantara
  10. tantarabobus
  11. Tantaraboo

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