"as it were" meaning in Anglais

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      "name": "Compositions en anglais",
      "parents": [],
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    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Dates manquantes en anglais",
      "parents": [],
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    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Locutions adverbiales en anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Anglais",
      "orig": "anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_texts": [
    "(Date à préciser) Mot à mot : « comme ce serait », mais plus exactement un raccourci de as if it were so.Composé de as, it et were."
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Positif"
    },
    {
      "form": "Incomparable"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "pos_title": "Locution adverbiale",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ellipses en anglais",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Exemples en anglais",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "A friend is, as it were, a second self.",
          "translation": "Un ami est, en quelque sorte, un autre soi-même."
        },
        {
          "ref": "EdwinAbbott Abbott, Flatland, A Romance of Many Dimensions, 1884",
          "text": "Yet so strong is the parental ambition among those Polygons who are, as it were, on the fringe of the Circular class, that it is very rare to find a Nobleman of that position in society, who has neglected to place his first-born in the Circular Neo-Therapeutic Gymnasium before he has attained the age of a month.",
          "translation": "Encore si forte est l’ambition parentale parmi ces Polygones qui sont, disons, sur la frange de la classe Circulaire, que c’est très rare de trouver un Noble Homme de cette position sociale, qui ait renié à placer son aîné (premier-né) dans le Gymnase (type d’école) néo-thérapeutique circulaire avant qu’il ait atteint l’âge d’un mois."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "(Adverbe de phrase) En quelque sorte, pour ainsi dire."
      ],
      "id": "fr-as_it_were-en-adv-zCySFVPw",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Par ellipse"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "\\ˈæz ɪt wɜːɹ\\"
    }
  ],
  "word": "as it were"
}

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  "categories": [
    "Compositions en anglais",
    "Dates manquantes en anglais",
    "Locutions adverbiales en anglais",
    "anglais"
  ],
  "etymology_texts": [
    "(Date à préciser) Mot à mot : « comme ce serait », mais plus exactement un raccourci de as if it were so.Composé de as, it et were."
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Positif"
    },
    {
      "form": "Incomparable"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "pos_title": "Locution adverbiale",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Ellipses en anglais",
        "Exemples en anglais"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "A friend is, as it were, a second self.",
          "translation": "Un ami est, en quelque sorte, un autre soi-même."
        },
        {
          "ref": "EdwinAbbott Abbott, Flatland, A Romance of Many Dimensions, 1884",
          "text": "Yet so strong is the parental ambition among those Polygons who are, as it were, on the fringe of the Circular class, that it is very rare to find a Nobleman of that position in society, who has neglected to place his first-born in the Circular Neo-Therapeutic Gymnasium before he has attained the age of a month.",
          "translation": "Encore si forte est l’ambition parentale parmi ces Polygones qui sont, disons, sur la frange de la classe Circulaire, que c’est très rare de trouver un Noble Homme de cette position sociale, qui ait renié à placer son aîné (premier-né) dans le Gymnase (type d’école) néo-thérapeutique circulaire avant qu’il ait atteint l’âge d’un mois."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "(Adverbe de phrase) En quelque sorte, pour ainsi dire."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "Par ellipse"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "\\ˈæz ɪt wɜːɹ\\"
    }
  ],
  "word": "as it were"
}