こととて

-こととて

since…; for…; because…; due to…; on account of…; as a result of….

●根っからの酒好きのこととて医者の忠告に耳もかさなかった. As a great lover of drink, he paid no attention whatever to the doctor's warnings. | Since he was an inveterate drinker, he completely ignored what the doctor said.

・日曜の朝のこととて官庁街は静まり返っていた. It being a Sunday morning, the government office quarter was as quite as the grave.