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to all in·tents and pur·pos·es
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Princeton's WordNet
for all practical purposes, to all intents and purposes, for all intents and purposesadverb
in every practical sense
"to all intents and purposes the case is closed"; "the rest are for all practical purposes useless"
Wiktionary
to all intents and purposesadverb
For every functional purpose; in every practical sense; in every important respect; practically speaking.
Etymology: 1500s, English law, originally “to all intents, constructions, and purposes” (found in an act adopted under Henry VIII in 1547).
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of to all intents and purposes in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of to all intents and purposes in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of to all intents and purposes in a Sentence
If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
A gilded cage is still a cage, there are locks on the doors, there is no freedom of movement. It is for all intents and purposes a prison.
It's a lot easier to take plain ice cream mix and' dress it up' to become eggnog. For all intents and purposes, that's what eggnog has been.
For all intents and purposes, I am a woman.
Expectations were high when the military took over that they could kick-start spending quickly, but this has been difficult with the government's focus (rightly or wrongly) on constitutional reform, in hindsight, perhaps it was unrealistic to expect so much of a government that, for all intents and purposes, is a caretaker until democracy is restored.
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