Meaning of in form | Babel Free

Definitions

1. As a matter of form; formally.
2. Having good form; fit, performing well.

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Examples

“[I]t being unlikely, he ſays, that he can procure in the time, a letter from Lady Betty, under her own⟳ hand, inviting me in form⟳ to her houſe, […]”

“[C]uriosity could not be satisfied by a bride in a pew, and it must be left for the visits in form⟳ which were then to be paid, to settle⟳ whether she were very pretty indeed, or only rather pretty, or not pretty at all.”

“Manchester United's in-form striker rose to head home Stewart Downing's corner and then rounded off a sweeping counter-attack involving Theo Walcott and Ashley Young to wrap⟳ up the formalities seconds before the break⟳.”

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