insomuch
adv/ɪnsəʊˈmʌt͡ʃ/
Etymology From Middle English insomuche; equivalent to in + so + much.
1
Because of; since; as a result of.
- Insomuch as you have consistently paid the bill on time before, we'll excuse one late payment.
2
To the extent that.
- In ſo moche that if any verbe be of the thyꝛde coniugation / I ſet out all his rotes and tenſes[…]1530 July 18, Iohan Palſgrave, “The Introduction”, in Leſclarciſſement de la langue francoyſe […] , London: Richard Pynſon, Iohan Haukyns, →OCLC, page 32; reprinted as Lesclarcissement de la langue françoyse, Genève: Slatkine Reprints, 1972:
- These weights did not exert their natural gravity […] insomuch that I could not guess which was light or heavy whilst I held them in my hand.1712 August 31 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “WEDNESDAY, August 21, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 463; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume V, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC: