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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Tantamount \Tan"ta*mount`\, a. [F. tant so much (L. tantus) + E.
     amount.]
     Equivalent in value, signification, or effect.
  
           A usage nearly tantamount to constitutional right.
                                                    --Hallam.
  
           The certainty that delay, under these circumstances,
           was tantamount to ruin.                  --De Quincey.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Tantamount \Tan"ta*mount`\, v. i.
     To be tantamount or equivalent; to amount. [Obs.] --Jer.
     Taylor.

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