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gleichsam

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German

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Etymology

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15th century, from gleich +‎ -sam. Earlier attested as a Middle High German noun gelīchsame (image, double, likeness) and a verb gelīchsamen (to compare); and Old High German gilīhsam (similar, hypocrite).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɡlaɪ̯çˌzaːm/, /ˈɡlaɪ̯ç.zam/
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  • Hyphenation: gleich‧sam

Adverb

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gleichsam

  1. (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.
  2. (rare, nonstandard, proscribed) equally; likewise
    Synonyms: imgleichen, insgleichen, also

References

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  • gleichsam” in Duden online
  • gleichsam” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • gleichsam” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon