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Definition of Insofar
1. Adverb. To the degree or extent that. "So far as it is reasonably practical he should practice restraint"
Definition of Insofar
1. Adverb. To such a degree or extent ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Insofar
1. to such an extent [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Insofar
Literary usage of Insofar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Alhacen's Theory of Visual Perception: A Critical Edition, with English by Alhazen, A. Mark Smith (2001)
"Therefore, it does not sense color, insofar as it is color, or light, insofar as
it is light, until after it has undergone the effect of the form of light ..."
2. Eucharistic Presence and Conversion in Late Thirteenth-Century Franciscan by David Burr (1984)
"Albert notes that the ability to be in several places at once does not belong to
a spirit insofar as it is a spirit, or to a body insofar as it is a body, ..."
3. Journal by General Assembly, Pennsylvania General Assembly. Senate, Pennsylvania (1920)
"... Laws sixty-five), insofar as it relates to cities of the first class. An act,
entitled "An act conferring upon the councils of certain cities of this ..."
4. The Shape of the New Europe by Gregory F. Treverton (1992)
"In other words, state autonomy and (insofar as deregulation prevails over the
harmonization of existing regulations or the invention of new ones) state ..."
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