Definition of To all intents and purposes

1. Adverb. In every practical sense. "The rest are for all practical purposes useless"

Exact synonyms: For All Intents And Purposes, For All Practical Purposes

Definition of To all intents and purposes

1. Adverb. (idiomatic British) For every functional purpose; in every practical sense; in every important respect; practically speaking. ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of To All Intents And Purposes

to a great extent
to a greater extent
to a hair
to a higher degree
to a higher place
to a lesser degree
to a lesser extent
to a lower place
to a man
to a nicety
to a tee
to a tittle
to a tolerable degree
to a turn
to advantage
to all intents and purposes (current term)
to an adequate degree
to an extent
to and again
to and fro
to and fros
to arms
to be continued
to be honest
to be precise
to be sure
to beat the band
to begin with
to boot
to both ears

Literary usage of To all intents and purposes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Federal and State Constitutions: Colonial Charters, and Other Organic by Francis N. Thorpe, United States (1909)
"... held good and valid in the same manner to all intents and purposes whatsoever as if they had been made and contracted according to the lawes established ..."

2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1844)
"A child en ventre sa mere is a life in being to all intents and purposes except in the case of a descent at common law, [p. 334. ..."

3. pennsylvania archives by Pennsylvania State Library, Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth (1878)
"... in General Assembly met, and by the authority of the same, That (Names related as above,) be and shall be to all intents and Purposes, deemed, ..."

4. A Sketch of the Laws Relating to Slavery in the Several States of the United by George McDowell Stroud (1856)
"... or any other trafficking with us, as slaves, should be SLAVES to all intents and purposes."* Per Judge Tucker, in the case of Hudgins vs. ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"On the contrary tie last chamber simply lodged the extremity of the visceral sac, and the shell is to all intents and purposes an ..."

6. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1896)
"It had to all intents and purposes, in the language of the statute, exhausted its legal remedy. Porter v. Sabin, 149 US 479, 37 L. ed. 818; Turku v. ..."

7. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"In law, both ancient and modern, the act of taking a stranger into one's family constituted the person so adopted one's heir to all intents and purposes. ..."

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