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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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... objects to the provision for nine States to ratify, as a virtual dissolution of the Union, 100; his use of the word ...

— The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government • Jefferson Davis

... Wilhelm throughout the eventful years which followed was but the figure-head of the ship at the helm of which stood Bismarck, strong, shrewd, subtle, cynical, and unscrupulous. This conception I believe to be utterly wrong. I hold Wilhelm to have been the virtual maker of the united Germany and the creator of the German Empire; and that the accomplishment of both those objects, the former leading up to the latter, was already quietly in his mind long before he mounted the throne. I consider him to have possessed the shrewdest insight into ...

— Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places • Archibald Forbes

... such, for instance, as these four which follow:—1. Eminent instances of scepticism with regard to the oracular powers, from time to time circulating through Greece in the shape of bon mots; or, 2, which silently amounted to the same virtual expression of distrust, Refusals (often more speciously wearing the name of neglects) to consult the proper Oracle on some hazardous enterprize of general notoriety and interest; 3. Cases of direct failure in the event, as understood to have ...

— Memorials and Other Papers • Thomas de Quincey

... to deaf ears the dreams on which he had brooded of permission to lead yet another expedition in search of his El Dorado; his despair, when the peremptory summons by the Council to London demonstrated to him that his vision of treasures and glory was to be extinguished for ever by actual or virtual death. In a much bolder letter to George Carew, intended for the King's perusal, which sounds more like a manifesto to the English nation, he frankly avowed the things he had left undone as well as the things he had done, and his reasons. He admitted he had not, ...

— Sir Walter Ralegh - A Biography • William Stebbing

... is to use the networks and library systems now being constructed to increase access to resources wherever they exist, and thus, to evolve toward an on-line electronic virtual library. ...

— LOC WORKSHOP ON ELECTRONIC TEXTS • James Daly

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