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FOR THAT MATTER
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
As far as that is concerned
Example:
for that matter I don't care either
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Context examples:
For that matter, replied the old woman, if you mean about the gentleman you murdered, I believe that it were better for you if you were dead, for I fancy it will go hard with you!
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
For that matter, so great a gap separates these ape-men from the primitive animals which have survived upon this plateau, that it is inadmissible to think that they could have developed where we find them.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
If you put Tom Belcher before me I’ll fight Tom Belcher, an’ for that matter I’ll fight Jem Belcher, or Bill Belcher, or any other Belcher that ever came out of Bristol.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
For that matter, I do him a kindness.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
For that matter, if you find a good man, you can marry and take it easy while he runs the ranch.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
For that matter, they were all loafing,—Buck, John Thornton, and Skeet and Nig,—waiting for the raft to come that was to carry them down to Dawson.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Yet, I think, none treated him better than a dog, unless it was Ben Gunn, who was still terribly afraid of his old quartermaster, or myself, who had really something to thank him for; although for that matter, I suppose, I had reason to think even worse of him than anybody else, for I had seen him meditating a fresh treachery upon the plateau.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
To a man of philosophic temperament like myself the blood-tick, with its lancet-like proboscis and its distending stomach, is as beautiful a work of Nature as the peacock or, for that matter, the aurora borealis.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“It’s childish,” I laughed later, “for him to do such things, and for me to grow angry over them, for that matter.”
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
For that matter, he did not think at all.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
