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German
Etymology
gleich + -sam
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡlaɪ̯çˌzaːm/, /ˈɡlaɪ̯ç.zam/
- Hyphenation: gleich‧sam
Adverb
gleichsam
- (formal) as it were; so to speak
- Synonyms: gewissermaßen, quasi, sozusagen
Ich fühlte mich gleichsam wie neugeboren.- I felt, as it were, like I was born anew.
1886, Rudolf Steiner, Grundlinien einer Erkenntnistheorie der goetheschen Weltanschauung, page 37:Kant also hat die Unwissenschaftlichkeit hier gleichsam wissenschaftlich begründet.- Here, Kant therefore has scientifically founded the unscientificity, as it were.
- (rare, nonstandard, proscribed) equally; likewise
- Synonyms: imgleichen, insgleichen, also
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