as it were: (as a parenthetic phrase used to indicate that a word or statement is perhaps not formally exact though practically right) as if it were…
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| 释义 | the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [adverb] > as it were (3) as it werec1175 as it were: (as a parenthetic phrase used to indicate that a word or statement is perhaps not formally exact though practically right) as if it were… quasi1485 Almost, virtually; as it were, so to speak; in effect. so to say1619 so to say: used to indicate that something is being described in an unusual, metaphorical, or creative way; ‘as it were’. Cf. so to speak at speak, v.… |
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