Nominally

Examples

• The capital of the country, though it might nominally be the same, would really be augmented. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The great Mogul, nominally their overlord, became in effect their puppet. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• While living in Galena I was nominally only a clerk supporting myself and family on a stipulated salary. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• And our dinner hour is nominally (for we dine at all hours) five! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Nominally, I believe it his calling. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• You shall be Mrs. Rochester--both virtually and nominally. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• But this is not a reason for nominally accepting one educational philosophy and accommodating ourselves in practice to another. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Nominally five hundred. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The profits of stock would be the same, both nominally and really. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Roumania and Italy, both Latin in tradition, both nominally allies of Germany, pursued remoter and deeper schemes in common. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Its price or wages, therefore, though nominally greater, would really be the same. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• That, said he, is a room I have hired, nominally for a study--virtually for a post of observation. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The individual is nominally free, but he is also powerless in a world bound hand and foot in the chains of economic necessity. Plato. The Republic.

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