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Practically

adverb

Almost; nearly. "He was practically the only guest at the party" , "There was practically no garden at all"

In a practical manner. "A brilliant man but so practically inept that he needed help to cross the road safely"

(degree adverb used before a noun phrase) for all practical purposes but not completely. Synonym: much. "Practically everything in Hinduism is the manifestation of a god"

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... curacy of Kidderminster, and declined the bishopric of Hereford. His writings were many of them directly calculated to make Dissenters from the Establishment, but he was invariably offended to find others practically influenced by them, and quarrelled with his own converts to Dissent. The High Churchmen of Oxford burned his Holy Commonwealth as seditious and revolutionary; while Harrington and the republican club of Miles's Coffee House condemned ...

— The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier

... get paid for the work you do?" Athalia asked, practically. Lewis flushed at the boldness of such a question, but the old ...

— The Way to Peace • Margaret Deland

... would be frozen to death. I must go as far as Majen, a few stations beyond Feriana; sleep there in an Arab funduk (caravanserai), and thank my stars if I found any one willing to supply me with a beast for the journey onward next morning. There are practically no tourists along this line, he explained, and consequently no accommodation for them; the towns that one sees so beautifully marked on the map are railway stations—that and nothing more; and as to the broad highways crossing the southern parts of Tunisia ...

— Fountains In The Sand - Rambles Among The Oases Of Tunisia • Norman Douglas

... death") which will often cause a savage to perish from a mere scratch hardly to be called a wound. The natural defence against this state of mind was the creation of an enormous number of taboos—such as we find among all races and on every conceivable subject—and these taboos constituted practically a great body of warnings which regulated the lives and thoughts of the community, and ultimately, after they had been weeded out and to some degree simplified, hardened down into very stringent Customs and Laws. Such taboos naturally in the beginning tended to include the avoidance ...

— Pagan & Christian Creeds - Their Origin and Meaning • Edward Carpenter

... Ignacio arrived here, he found the town practically deserted. So he and the foreman retorted the amalgam and melted the gold into bars. But, just as they had completed their task, a messenger came flying to town and reported that a body of Royalist soldiers were at Badillo, and that they had learned that Simiti was the ...

— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking

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