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Definition of So to speak

1. Adverb. As if it were really so. "She lives here, as it were"

2. Adverb. In a manner of speaking. "The feeling is, as we say, quite dead"

Definition of So to speak

1. Adverb. In a manner of speaking. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of So To Speak

so far so good so fashion so long so long, and thanks for all the fish so long as so many so much so much as so much for so quiet one can hear a pin drop

so so so that so there so they say so to say so to speak (current term) so what soak soak the runner soak through

soak up soakage soakages soakaway soakaways soakcrust soaked soaked to the bone soaked to the skin soaken

Literary usage of So to speak

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"It was, so to speak, at t he- foot of the Cross that the Christian heart first made the acquaintance of the Heart of Mary. Simeon's prophecy paved the way ..."

2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1845)
"... and spent some well-devoted labor, in after years, on the compilation of a very minute, and, so to speak, highly dramatic History of the Union. ..."

3. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"What is the nature of that reality which makes the content, so to speak, of the process of evolution ? and III. How is the process effected ? ..."

4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1903)
"In order to see the bearing of these exceptions, the picture, so to speak, of the witness, the questions asked of him, and the true attitude of the ..."

5. Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography and Mythology by Joseph Thomas (1901)
"It may suffice briefly to notice a few of the principal battles which constituted, so to speak, turning-points in the history of the war, and which had an ..."

6. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"His favourite studies led him to explore the recesses of theological and metaphysical lore, lie was, so to speak, the child and intellectual heir of Niebuhr ..."

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