Definition of "insomuch"
insomuch
adverb
not comparable
Quotations
In ſo moche that if any verbe be of the thyꝛde coniugation / I ſet out all his rotes and tenſes […]
1530 July 18, Iohan Palſgrave, “The Introduction”, in Leſclarciſſement de la langue francoyſe […] , London: Richard Pynſon, Iohan Haukyns, page 32; reprinted as Lesclarcissement de la langue françoyse, Genève: Slatkine Reprints, 1972
These weights did not exert their natural gravity […] insomuch that I could not guess which was light or heavy whilst I held them in my hand.The spelling has been modernized.
1712 September 1 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “THURSDAY, August 21, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 463; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume V, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853