Meaning of in all but name | Babel Free

Definitions

In practice, though in an unacknowledged way.

Examples

“Thenceforth my voice was a household law; and at an age when few children have abandoned their leading-strings, I was left to the guidance of my own will, and became, in all but name, the master of my own actions.”

“‘Do you mean to say that you’ve become a communist?’ ‘In all but name, William, yes. In all but name.’”

“2012, Katie Kitamura, Gone to the Forest, New York: Free Press, Chapter 5, p. 76, He thinks: I have been running the farm in all but name. Leave and nothing here will change. You will see.”

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