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单词 tantamount
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tantamountn.

Forms: Also 1600s tant amount, tantamont, 1700s tant'amount.
Etymology: apparently < tantamount v.; perhaps influenced by amount noun beside amount verb.
Obsolete.
That which amounts to as much, or comes to the same thing; something equivalent (to); an equivalent.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > [noun] > equal, counterpart, or equivalent
ylikeeOE
likea1200
make?c1225
fellow?a1425
proportion?a1425
countervailc1430
matcha1450
meetc1450
pareil?c1450
resemblant1484
equivalent1502
countermatch1587
second1599
parallel1600
equipollent1611
balancea1616
tantamount1637
analogy1646
analogate1652
form-fellow1659
equivalency1698
par1711
homologizer1716
peel1722
analogon1797
quits1806
correlate1821
analogue1837
representant1847
homologue1848
countertype1855
homologon1871
correlative1875
vis-à-vis1900
counterpart1903
1637 P. Heylyn Briefe Answer Burton 26 You come very neare it, to a tantamont.
1641 W. Prynne New Discov. Prelates Tyranny ii. 216 He pronounced no particular sentence..but he did tant amount or more.
1642 W. Price Serm. 40 Anger, and rancored envy, which..are a Tantamount to murder.
1646 J. Maxwell Burden of Issachar 41 Letters of caption (that is..the tant'amount of the Writ De Excommunicato capiendo).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

tantamountadj.

Brit. /ˈtantəmaʊnt/, U.S. /ˈtæn(t)əˌmaʊnt/
Forms: Also 1600s tant a mount, tanta-mount, tantamont, 1600s–1700s tant'amount.
Etymology: apparently < tantamount n. The earlier quots. under sense a are scarcely distinguishable from quot. 1641 at tantamount n. Perhaps influenced by paramount adj.
As much; that amounts to as much, that comes to the same thing; of the same amount; equivalent.
a. In predicate without construction. Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > [adjective] > equal in effect or equivalent
convertiblec1386
fellowa1393
equipollec1430
answerable1551
countervailable1576
equiparable1611
reciprocal1616
equiparant1625
equiponderant1629
equivalent1639
tantamount1641
equiparate1655
equipollent1664
equal1677
adequative1809
1641 O. St. John Argument of Law 24 If a man take the broad Seale from one Pattent, and put it to another, here he is counterfeiting, it's tantamount, and therefore Treason.
1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica i. xv. 80 Conjunction, Opposition, and Quadrate go for Tant-amount in the Meteorological Part.
1769 E. Burke Let. 2 July in Corr. (1960) II. 40 Provided instructions, (or thanks, which are tantamount but more respectful,) should be the mode proposed.
1826 R. Southey Vindiciæ Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ 224 You..avoid the word, and speak of the Real Presence, as if the terms were tantamount.
b. Const. as, with. Obsolete.
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1644 J. Maxwell Sacro-sancta Regum Majestas 10 Howsoever their tenets by deductions and consequences are tant'amount as theirs.
1645 J. Goodwin Innocency & Truth Triumphing 11 I utterly renounce the consequence, conceiving it to be tantamont with an absolute mistake.
1684 T. Burnet Theory of Earth ii. 256 For this is tantamount with the former.
1697 J. Pollexfen Disc. Trade & Coyn 57 Tant a mount, as if carried from us in Money.
c. Const. to. The current use.
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1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie Introd. sig. B4 That saying of Berosus will prove tantamont to a Text of Scripture.
1659 P. Heylyn Certamen Epistolare 389 They are tantamount to a plain acknowledgement.
1697 J. Pollexfen Disc. Trade & Coyn 93 They..laid such Impositions on our Woolen Goods, as was tant a mount to a Prohibition.
1777 J. Lovell in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) I. 411 Is not this..tantamount to a disavowal of the first treaty?
1874 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. i. i. §18 Is not this tantamount to saying that they go on by a force of their own?
d. attributively. rare.
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1692 S. Patrick Answer to Touchstone of Reformed Gospel 17 Giving us express Words, and not words Tantamount.
1798 G. Washington Let. in Writings (1893) XIV. 29 The President; to whom I have expressed tantamount sentiments in more concise terms.
1868 J. E. T. Rogers Man. Polit. Econ. i. 2 A tantamount service should be given in exchange for them.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

tantamountv.

Forms: Also 1600s tant amount, tant-amount, tant'amount.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman tant amunter, or perhaps (in 17th cent.) < Italian tanto montare to amount to as much. Cf. 1292 Year-bk. Trin. 20 Edw. I (Rolls) 31 Tant amunte qe Adam neyt pas plus procheyn heyr.1303 Year-bk. Michaelmas 31 Edw. I 335 Herle dist..qe tant amunte qil ne entra pas dans soun baroun.
Obsolete.
1. intransitive. To amount to as much, to come to the same thing; to be or become equivalent. Const. to or unto (something).
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > be or become equal [verb (intransitive)] > be equivalent
amountc1390
to pass for (also as)1463
to come to one purpose1489
weigh1529
to pass muster1573
parallel1626
tantamount1628
to come to the same1643
coextenda1711
muster1820
1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. i. i. § i. 10 They doe tant amount to a feoffment or grant.
1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. i. i. § i. 391 It ought to be pardoned specially, or by words which tant amount.
1642 Bp. J. Taylor Of Sacred Order Episcopacy (1647) ix. 36 Yet this will not tant'-amount to an immediate Divine institution for Deacons.
1659 T. Fuller Appeal Iniured Innocence iii. 7 His not denying, tantamounteth to the affirming of the matter.
1700 W. Salmon Pharmacopœia Bateana (ed. 2) Postscr. sig. A7 Those things.., which may Tantamount to more than an Hundred times its value.
1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. 211 Tant-amounting, in a more reform'd Perfection, to the different Religious Orders.
2. transitive. To amount or come up to (something); to equal.
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the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > number, calculate, or reckon [verb (transitive)] > amount to or total
makeOE
amountc1350
be?c1425
draw1425
numbera1450
numbera1586
to sum up1597
give1634
mount1639
tantamount1659
compute1667
muster1810
total1859
subtotal1906
1659 T. Pecke Parnassi Puerperium 132 Account Hercules Labours; they Twelve tantamount.
1683 Vind. Case relating to Green-Wax-Fines 65 Your peaceable Subjects..whose indearment in that Case will tant-amount the Profits falling short.

Derivatives

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ˈtantamounting adj. Obsolete rare Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
ˈtantaˌmountingly adv. Obsolete ‘equivalently, in effect’ (Davies).
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the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > [adverb] > equivalently
to the (this) same1399
equivalentlya1529
valuably1627
tantamountingly1655
equipollentlya1677
convertibly1710
coextensively1843
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ii. 69 Did it not deserve the Stab of Excommunication, for any dissenting from her practice, tantamountingly to give her the Lie?
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