For-all-intents-and-purposes meaning

(idiomatic, US) For every functional purpose; in every practical sense; in every important respect; practically speaking.

For all intents and purposes the case is closed.

This treaty, for all intents and purposes, is no longer viable.

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Origin of for-all-intents-and-purposes

  • 1500s, English law, originally “to all intents, constructions, and purposes” (found in an act adopted under Henry VIII in 1547).
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For-all-intents-and-purposes Sentence Examples

  • But until modern times most of the larger Landstddte or mesne-towns for all intents and purposes were as independent under their lords as the imperial cities were under the emperor.

  • 1-lenry of Lancaster came to the throne, for all intents and purposes as an elective king; he had to depend for the future on his ability to conciliate and satisfy the baronage PsltIan of and the commons by his governance.

  • But once cars improved enough, for all intents and purposes we stopped increasing their top speed.

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