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In effect   /ɪn ɪfˈɛkt/   Listen
noun
Effect  n.  
1.
Execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in May. "That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it."
2.
Manifestation; expression; sign. "All the large effects That troop with majesty."
3.
In general: That which is produced by an agent or cause; the event which follows immediately from an antecedent, called the cause; result; consequence; outcome; fruit; as, the effect of luxury. "The effect is the unfailing index of the amount of the cause."
4.
Impression left on the mind; sensation produced. "Patchwork... introduced for oratorical effect." "The effect was heightened by the wild and lonely nature of the place."
5.
Power to produce results; efficiency; force; importance; account; as, to speak with effect.
6.
Consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent; with to. "They spake to her to that effect."
7.
The purport; the sum and substance. "The effect of his intent."
8.
Reality; actual meaning; fact, as distinguished from mere appearance. "No other in effect than what it seems."
9.
pl. Goods; movables; personal estate; sometimes used to embrace real as well as personal property; as, the people escaped from the town with their effects.
For effect, for an exaggerated impression or excitement.
In effect, in fact; in substance. See 8, above.
Of no effect, Of none effect, To no effect, or Without effect, destitute of results, validity, force, and the like; vain; fruitless. "Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition." "All my study be to no effect."
To give effect to, to make valid; to carry out in practice; to push to its results.
To take effect, to become operative, to accomplish aims.
Synonyms: Effect, Consequence, Result. These words indicate things which arise out of some antecedent, or follow as a consequent. Effect, which may be regarded as the generic term, denotes that which springs directly from something which can properly be termed a cause. A consequence is more remote, not being strictly caused, nor yet a mere sequence, but following out of and following indirectly, or in the train of events, something on which it truly depends. A result is still more remote and variable, like the rebound of an elastic body which falls in very different directions. We may foresee the effects of a measure, may conjecture its consequences, but can rarely discover its final results. "Resolving all events, with their effects And manifold results, into the will And arbitration wise of the Supreme." "Shun the bitter consequence, for know, The day thou eatest thereof,... thou shalt die."





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... neither be bought nor sold, and that prescribing that a freeman might not be imprisoned, outlawed, or dispossessed of his property save by the judgment of his peers or by the law of the land, meant in effect considerably less than they sometimes have been interpreted to mean.[11] Yet even they served to emphasize the fundamental principle upon which the political and legal structure was intended to be grounded, that, namely, of impartial ...
— The Governments of Europe • Frederic Austin Ogg
... curious words but not so curious in substance as in effect. With a cry of startled anger, Ronador leaped back, his eyes flashing terrible menace at Philip. There was only one pair of eyes, however, quick and keen enough, for all their loveliness, to follow his swift movement or the glitter of steel ...
— Diane of the Green Van • Leona Dalrymple
... courage, to dart his spiritual thunders: he issued the sentence of excommunication against Robert de Brock, and Nigel de Sackville, with many others, who either had assisted at the coronation of the prince, or been active in the late persecution of the exiled clergy. This violent measure, by which he in effect denounced war against the king himself, is commonly ascribed to the vindictive disposition and imperious character of Becket; but as this prelate was also a man of acknowledged abilities, we are not, in his passions alone, to look for the cause of his conduct, when he proceeded to these extremities ...
— The History of England, Volume I • David Hume
... or any foreign influence. He was seconded by six-and-forty members. With regard to the third article of the union, stipulating, that both kingdoms should be represented by one and the same parliament, the country party observed that, by assenting to this expedient, they did in effect sink their own constitution, while that of England underwent no alteration: that in all nations there are fundamentals which no power whatever can alter: that the rights and privileges of parliament being one of those ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. - From William and Mary to George II. • Tobias Smollett
... Church, nominally built upon the morality of the Golden Rule, was perverted into being the great organ of sinister self-interest. The Atheists, apparently formulating the morality of the Epicureans, were in effect the teachers of public spirit and beneficence. And, taught in such circumstances, public spirit could only mean revolution. We may doubt whether Holbach had thought out the very different questions that ...
— Diderot and the Encyclopaedists - Volume II. • John Morley


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