pro tantoadv.adj.

1621 Acts Parl. Scotl. IV. 609/2 The foirsaid annuelrent salbe ascryvit in payment and satisfactioun off his principall soumes pro tanto.

1674 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 9 210 These are the particulars, perform'd in this Discourse, which the Author judgeth, may pass for a Sample, pro tanto, of what the Royal Society is doing.

1710 in Further Evid. Nairne Peerage (1874) 153 in Sessional Papers House of Lords (H.L. D) XII. 199 We..surrogate & substitute the said master James Nairne..in our full right and place therof pro tanto.

1780 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. (1789) ii. §4 Any one who reprobates any the least particle of pleasure as such..is pro tanto a partizan of the principle of asceticism.

1820 Edinb. Rev. 33 477 It..increased, pro tanto, the Ministerial patronage.

1848 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 11 338 All such expense must..ultimately fall on the public in the shape of charges, and pro tanto diminish the usefulness of the railways.

1882 Macmillan's Mag. 46 437 Anything which reduces the amount of payments to be made out of the country pro tanto reduces the loss.

1925 Michigan Law Rev. 23 898 It would seem that when the remedy at law becomes adequate the Chancellor is pro tanto deprived of his right to give relief.

1991 S. Mehigan Restraint Trade & Business Secrets (BNC) 32 The fact that a covenantor had obtained..benefits under the agreement..was pro tanto a reason for holding that the covenant was not in unreasonable restraint of trade.

1842 Times 28 Sept. 4/2 It confounds every distinction between the temporal and the spiritual power for the State to supersede the church in the office of education, prescribing how much or how little religion she is to teach her children..under the penalty of a pro tanto disestablishment.

1885 Law Times 78 387/1 The land tax was redeemed and pro tanto personal estate converted into real estate.

a1902 S. Butler Way of All Flesh (1903) liii. 244 Every change is a shock; every shock is a pro tanto death. What we call death is only a shock great enough to destroy our power to recognise a past and a present as resembling one another.

1934 Times 8 May 24/1 So far as these emergencies can be met from reserves there is a pro tanto saving in the cost of capital, and a corresponding benefit to the consumer.

1991 Public Wks. Oct. 51/2 Failure to assume this responsibility could result in a lawsuit against your community for damages or engaging in a pro tanto taking of property.