forasmuch as

English edit

Inasmuch as, because, since.
Synonyms: as, given that, seeing that; see also Thesaurus:because
- 1859, Charles Dickens, “The Period”, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book I (Recalled to Life), page 2:
  But, that Woodman and that Farmer, though they work unceasingly, work silently, and no one heard them as they went about with muffled tread: the rather, forasmuch as to entertain any suspicion that they were awake, was to be atheistical and traitorous.
(obsolete) So far as; with regard to so much as.

This phrase is now somewhat formal or archaic. In early use the second as was occasionally omitted, and in rare instances it was replaced with that.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 1:1:
Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us...
1651, George Digby, Letters Concerning Religion:
Forasmuch as belongs to that eating, we are neither defrauded of any good by not eating, nor enriched with any good by the eating of the sanctified bread, which, forasmuch as it hath of materials, goes into the belly.