Tantamount is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TANTAMOUNT in dictionary:

VERB:
• To be tantamount or equivalent; to amount.
ADJECTIVE:
• equivalent in value, significance, or effect
• equivalent in seriousness to; virtually the same as
• Equivalent in value, signification, or effect.
• being essentially equal to something

How to use TANTAMOUNT in a sentence

• To disobey the king was tantamount to defiance of Almighty power.
• I have taxed my father with it, and obtained from him what I consider tantamount to a denial.
• He wished to receive Kossuth at his house, which would have been tantamount to admitting to a hostile attitude towards Austria and Russia, who were nominally our friends.
• To do such a thing was tantamount to preventing him from having a direct revelation of God.
• In my case, being a life prisoner, this was tantamount to condemning me to solitary confinement for life.
• The alterations must, however, have been so numerous that they were tantamount to the construction of a new engine.
• Of the latter, description there was but one opinion, which was that their refusal in such a case would be tantamount to guilt.
• I cannot make your consciousness tantamount to mine.
• It was tantamount to a demonstration that the belief in Universal Monarchy had passed away.
• This was tantamount to flinging a burning torch into the powder-magazine of Huguenot and Lutheran grievances.
• This theory is really tantamount to placing magic on a philosophic basis.
• It hates that evolution of black into white which is tantamount to a dirty grey.
• Rhodes was obliged to leave on Sunday night the reply was tantamount to a refusal.
• Second, the defendant Company makes allegations which are tantamount to fraudulent dealing on the part of the agents of the State.
• For such a man cannot but feel that the proffered substitution would be tantamount, if accepted, to an utter destruction of all that he regards as essentially religious.
• ASA GRAY 174 DARWINISM TANTAMOUNT TO ATHEISM 177 WHAT IS DARWINISM? This is a question which needs an answer.
• He gained a victory over the Russians at Craonne, but his loss was so great that it was tantamount to defeat.
• The cession of a portion of the fleet is but tantamount to the payment of money.
• To hold such a conception of its character and functions would be tantamount to a betrayal of its cause and a denial of its truth.
• And to send for the parson seemed to her tantamount to dismissing the doctor and ringing the passing bell.
• If we reject one of these gradations in theory, we might with equal right reject the whole, which would be tantamount to shutting the real world completely out of sight.
• Any insult to it is tantamount to personal affront.
• Yet to deny the value of special information is tantamount to an assertion of the desirability of general ignorance.
• But the threats which the Black Republicans held out were tantamount to a proposal to set the Constitution aside.
• At this juncture the Schmitz trial ended in conviction of the Mayor which was tantamount to his removal from office.
• The consequence was, an order for the cutter to leave the port immediately, as receiving her would be tantamount to an aggression on the part of France.
• This was tantamount to a declaration that the Spaniards were sliding into a surrender, but wanted to make a claim to the contrary.
• It is an essential expression of life, and its disappearance would be tantamount to death, making an end to voluntary transition and ideal representation.
• To try to support fabulous dogmas by evidence is tantamount to acknowledging that they are merely scientific hypotheses, instruments of discourse, and methods of expression.
• He made a furious gesture, which was tantamount to sending her to the devil.
• Such a charge is really tantamount to a confession that popular antipathy was more easily excited by the word than by the real doctrine.