"forasmuch" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "for-as-moche"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English for-as-moche",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "for",
        "3": "as",
        "4": "much"
      },
      "expansion": "for + as + much",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English for-as-moche, vor asemoche, for as miche, equivalent to for + as + much.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "forasmuch (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "96 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "97 3",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "97 3",
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          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 1:1, column 1:",
          "text": "Foraſmuch as many haue taken in hande to ſet foorth in order a declaration of thoſe things which are moſt ſurely beleeued among vs[…]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Inasmuch, seeing (that)."
      ],
      "id": "en-forasmuch-en-adv-D3PvDT3j",
      "links": [
        [
          "Inasmuch",
          "inasmuch"
        ],
        [
          "seeing",
          "seeing"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1651, George Digby, Letters Concerning Religion:",
          "text": "Forasmuch as belongs to that eating, we are neither defrauded of any good by not eating, nor enriched with any good by the eating of the sanctified bread, which, forasmuch as it hath of materials, goes into the belly.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "So far as; with regard to so much as."
      ],
      "id": "en-forasmuch-en-adv--pPRvDK7",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) So far as; with regard to so much as."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/fɒɹəzˈmʌtʃ/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "forsomuch"
    }
  ],
  "word": "forasmuch"
}

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    "English compound terms",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English uncomparable adverbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "for-as-moche"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English for-as-moche",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "for",
        "3": "as",
        "4": "much"
      },
      "expansion": "for + as + much",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English for-as-moche, vor asemoche, for as miche, equivalent to for + as + much.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "forasmuch (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 1:1, column 1:",
          "text": "Foraſmuch as many haue taken in hande to ſet foorth in order a declaration of thoſe things which are moſt ſurely beleeued among vs[…]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Inasmuch, seeing (that)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Inasmuch",
          "inasmuch"
        ],
        [
          "seeing",
          "seeing"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1651, George Digby, Letters Concerning Religion:",
          "text": "Forasmuch as belongs to that eating, we are neither defrauded of any good by not eating, nor enriched with any good by the eating of the sanctified bread, which, forasmuch as it hath of materials, goes into the belly.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "So far as; with regard to so much as."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) So far as; with regard to so much as."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/fɒɹəzˈmʌtʃ/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "forsomuch"
    }
  ],
  "word": "forasmuch"
}