farforth

To a great extent; far.

Adverb

  1. To a great extent; far.
    • As for their cities, he that knoweth one of them, knoweth them all: they be all so like one to another, as farforth as the nature of the place permitteth. - 1551, Thomas More, “(please specify the Internet Archive...
    • Thus farfourth good readers, aſwell for defence of my countrey language […] as alſo for honeſt recreation of you the nobilitie, gentelmen and Ladies, that ſtudie not Latine, I haue taken ſome trauayle to expreſſe this...
    • So long these knights discoursed diversly / Of straunge affaires, and noble hardiment, / Which they had past with mickle jeopardy, / That now the humid night was farforth spent […] - 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III,...
  2. To a specific extent and no farther.
    • Know thus far forth, / By accident most strange, bountifull Fortune / (Now my deere Lady) hath mine enemies / Brought to this shore - 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William...

Origin

From Middle English ferforth, from fer + forth. By surface analysis, far + forth.