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Virtual

adjective

Being actually such in almost every respect. Synonym: practical. "The once elegant temple lay in virtual ruin"

Existing in essence or effect though not in actual fact. "A virtual revolution" , "Virtual reality"

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... governments which have most abused the power of creating inconvertible paper. If they have not (as they generally have) professed an intention of paying in specie at some indefinite future time, they have at least, by giving to their paper issues the names of their coins, made a virtual, though generally a false, profession of intending to keep them at a value corresponding to that of the coins. This is not impracticable, even with an inconvertible paper. There is not, indeed, the self-acting check which convertibility ...

— Principles Of Political Economy • John Stuart Mill

... but in the constitutional convention which met later in the same year. Although the abolitionists had looked forward to some advanced constitutional provisions on emancipation and the inclusion of the law of 1833 in the organic law of the State they were astounded to be met with the virtual repeal of that statute by the legislature. On the other hand the constitutional convention not only rejected bodily all the reform measures but added to the Bill of Rights this extraordinary amendment: "The right of property is before and higher than any constitutional ...

— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 • Various

... old for the mastery.... Now as heretofore, disguise the object as they may, they are striving for a prize which has not been destined by divine Providence for either; and this prize is no less than a virtual dominion over the Christian world, from a throne of government within the sanctuaries of the Holy City; and the possession of that throne would involve possession of the key to universal dominion."—"Stirring Times: Records from Jerusalem Consulate Chronicles," by James ...

— Our Day - In the Light of Prophecy • W. A. Spicer

... this chapter, I may make some further reference to my friend Mr. Stead. The retirement of John Morley from the Pall Mall Gazette had led to Mr. Stead's promotion, and he had become the virtual, if not the nominal editor of the paper. He was not long in impressing the public with the fact that a new and original force had entered English public life. "I am riding on the crest of the wave," he wrote to me ...

— Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 • Stuart J. Reid, ed.

... was born the Clan Torn, which grew in a few years to number a thousand men, and which defied a king's army and helped to make Simon de Montfort virtual ruler ...

— The Outlaw of Torn • Edgar Rice Burroughs

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