Tanner says: To believe firmly is almost tantamount in the end to accomplishment.

Sauvage with her, and to put in Fraisier's servant was almost tantamount to installing Fraisier himself.

This was startling news indeed, for it was almost tantamount to saying the stranger was a Frenchman.

It was almost tantamount to betrayal!

Mrs. Berkeley Page had left her possessed of an impulse, which she took to be almost tantamount to a resolution.

We have here a fact that is clear as daylight; and the imprint is almost tantamount to a discovery in the act.

To be suspected and dragged before this tribunal was, for the time being (as I afterwards learnt) almost tantamount to condemnation.