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Määritelmät
Adverbi
- Used to indicate that a word or statement is perhaps not exact though practically right; as if it were so.
- Used to draw attention to the use of a metaphor, sometimes to prevent confusion or to highlight wordplay.
Esimerkit
- God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.
- Yet so strong is the parental ambition among those Polygons who are, as it were, on the fringe of the Circular class, that it is very rare to find a Nobleman of that position in society, who has neglected to place his first-born in the Circular Neo-Therapeutic Gymnasium before he has attained the age of a month.