tantamount

  1. Verb.  (obsolete) To amount to as much; to be equivalent.
  2. Noun.  (obsolete) Something which has the same value or amount (as something else). (italbrac, attributive use passing into adjective, below) .
  3. Adjective.  Equivalent in meaning or effect.

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