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51as though — conjunction : as if the Charter makes “aggression” synonymous with “wrongdoing” but drops the matter there, as though everyone understood the nature of sin E.B.White * * * as if or as though As it would be if • • • Main Entry: ↑as as though As if …
52although, though — These words meaning even though, regardless, in spite of the fact that may be used interchangeably in most instances: Although I was nervous, I got to my feet. Though I was nervous, I got to my feet. However, although is more commonly used at the …
53what though — phrasal 1. obsolete : what does that matter I keep but three men and a boy … but what though? yet I live like a poor gentleman born Shakespeare 2. : what does or would it matter if : even granting or supposing that what though the rose have… …
54Happy Though Married — Infobox Film name = Happy Though Married image size = caption = director = Fred Niblo producer = Thomas H. Ince writer = C. Gardner Sullivan Arthur J. Zellner Lois Zellner narrator = starring = Enid Bennett Hallam Cooley music = cinematography =… …
55home is home though it’s never so homely — The archaic phrase never so means ‘ever so’. 1546 J. HEYWOOD Dialogue of Proverbs I. iv. B1 Home is homely, though it be poore in syght. 1569–70 Stationers’ Register (1875) 1.192 A ballett intituled home ys homelye be yt neuer so ill. 1670 J. RAY …
56As though — as as ([a^]z), adv. & conj. [OE. as, als, alse, also, al swa, AS. eal sw[=a], lit. all so; hence, quite so, quite as: cf. G. als as, than, also so, then. See {Also}.] 1. Denoting equality or likeness in kind, degree, or manner; like; similar to;… …
57as if, as though, like — Each of these expressions is permissible. As if is used more often in speech and in informal writing than is as though, which is preferred by careful writers. Both expressions are followed by a verb in the subjunctive mood: He left the room as… …
58sound as if/though — • to sound + adj./n/PartII, or as if, as though • to sound as if/though • to sound sad (patient, sore, interested, apologetic, tired, concerned, strange, indifferent, eager, impatient, angry, alarmed, dejected, surprised, pleased, dubious,… …
59al|though — «l THOH», conjunction. in spite of the fact that; though. ╂[Old English eall all, completely + thāh though] …
60To make as though — Make Make (m[=a]k), v. i. 1. To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in the phrase to meddle or make. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] A scurvy, jack a nape priest to meddle or make. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To …
