"gleichsam" meaning in German

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          "english": "I felt, as it were, like I was born anew.",
          "text": "Ich fühlte mich gleichsam wie neugeboren.",
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          "english": "Here, Kant therefore has scientifically founded the unscientificity, as it were.",
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          "text": "Kant also hat die Unwissenschaftlichkeit hier gleichsam wissenschaftlich begründet.",
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        "as it were; so to speak"
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        "(formal) as it were; so to speak"
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        "equally; likewise"
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