like as
English
Etymology
See like.
Conjunction
- (archaic) Just as; in the same way as; even as.
- 1611, Bible, Job 5.26
- Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
- 1611, Bible, Job 5.26
Usage notes
The forms like as if and like as and are sometimes found. The former is rare; the latter obsolete.
- 1799: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Letters (1895), 272
- I held the letter in my hand like as if I was stupid.
- 1523: John Fitzherbert, The Boke of Surveying, 13.31
- Lyke as and it were extortion.
References
- “like as” in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.
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