forasmuch as
conjUK /fɒɹəzˈmʌtʃ æz/
1
Inasmuch as, because, since.
- But, that Woodman and that Farmer, though they work unceasingly, work silently, and no one heard them as they went about with muffled tread: the rather, forasmuch as to entertain any suspicion that they were awake, was to be atheistical and traitorous.1859, Charles Dickens, “The Period”, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book I (Recalled to Life), page 2:
2
Obsolete So far as; with regard to so much as.