much as
Conjunction
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Conjunction
- However much; even though; although.
- 1927-29, Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter iii ↗:
- Much as I wish that I had not to write this chapter, I know that I shall have to swallow many such bitter draughts in the course of this narrative. And I cannot do otherwise, if I claim to be a worshipper of Truth. […]
- 1927-29, Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter iii ↗:
- Largely in the same way as.
- 1888, James M. Barrie, Auld Licht Idyls, Chapter 6:
- [H]e disappeared into his house much as a startled weasel makes for its hole.
- 1888, James M. Barrie, Auld Licht Idyls, Chapter 6:
- (however much) as much as, howbeit; see also Thesaurus:even though
- (largely in the same way as) like as
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