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Definition of Tantamount
1. Adjective. Being essentially equal to something. "His statement was tantamount to an admission of guilt"
Definition of Tantamount
1. a. Equivalent in value, signification, or effect.
2. v. i. To be tantamount or equivalent; to amount.
Definition of Tantamount
1. Verb. (obsolete) To amount to as much; to be equivalent. ¹
2. Noun. (obsolete) Something which has the same value or amount (as something else). (qualifier attributive use passing into adjective, below) ¹
3. Adjective. Equivalent in meaning or effect. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tantamount
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Tantamount
1. To be tantamount or equivalent; to amount. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tantamount
Literary usage of Tantamount
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Principles and Practice of the High Court of Chancery by Henry Maddock, Thomas Huntington (1827)
"... if there is sufficient to pay Debts (/). thing tantamount, is made of the thing by
... cannot be made without a transfer, or something tantamount (A). ..."
2. Commentaries on the Law of Private Corporations by Seymour Dwight Thompson (1895)
"ARTICLE IV. RATIFICATION OP UNAUTHORIZED ACTS OF AGENT.* SECTION SECTION 4938.
Ratification tantamount to a 4943. Ratifying a compromise by ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Edward Hyde East, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"... and incapable as here of being handed over from one to another, there need
not be an actual delivery : but it may be done by that which is tantamount, ..."
4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1911)
"This is not tantamount to an allegation of a wrongful breach of any contract.
He further says that the defendant thereby inflicted upon him great mental ..."
5. The Law of Equitable Mortgages: Treating of the Liens of Vendors and by Samuel Miller (1844)
"... the second security will be legal estate. tantamount to possessing the legal
estate in lands, Notice when preferred, because the giving notice is in ..."
6. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"Title by prescription is tantamount to a transfer of the property by the owner (part
1, ch. 1, art. 1, § 8, pp. 146, 147) ; and hence a minor cannot abandon ..."
7. The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Or, A Commentary by Edward Coke, Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Charles Butler, Matthew Hale, Heneage Finch Nottingham, Thomas Day (1812)
"... in the eye of the law, is tantamount to it.—Littleton now proceeds to lay
down, that to make a discontinuance, the conveyance must be of such an estate ..."
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