pro tantoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

副詞

pro tanto (not comparable)

1. To that extent.
   • 1870, John Stuart Mill, chapter IV, in The Subjection of Women, 3rd edition, Random House, published 2002, →ISBN, page 229:

     Their vain fears only substitute other and worse evils for those which they are idly apprehensive of: while every restraint on the freedom of conduct of any of their human fellow creatures, (otherwise than by making them responsible for any evil actually caused by it), dries up pro tanto the principal fountain of human happiness, and leaves the species less rich, to an inappreciable degree, in all that makes life valuable to the individual human being.

   • 1962, J. L. Austin, How To Do Things With Words, OUP paperback edition edition, page 69:

     If 'making explicit' conveys this, then pro tanto it is a bad term.