insomuch

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But this scholarly and measured speech has impressed itself on the poetry of our time--insomuch, that the Tennysonian cycle of minor poets has a higher standard of grace, precision, and subtlety of phrase than the second rank of any modern literature:--a standard which puts to shame the rugosities of strong men like Dryden, Burns, and Byron.

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  1. To such a degree; in such wise; so: followed by that, and formerly sometimes by as. There wee found a mightie riuer, insomuch that wee were constrained to imbarke our selues, and to saile ouer it. Hakluyt's Voyages, I. 113. And he answered him to never a word; insomuch that the governor marvelled greatly. Mat. xxvii. 14.

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  1. Orig. written separately, in so much. Cf. inasmuch.
 

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