All 4 Uses of
virtual
in
Gone with the Wind
- The truth was that the North was holding the South in a virtual state of siege, though many did not realize it.†
Chpt 2.16
- Before him lay three hundred miles of territory virtually undefended save by a few state militia and the old men and young boys of the Home Guard.†
Chpt 3.27 *
- Georgia was virtually under martial law now.†
Chpt 4.31
- The civil courts still functioned after a fashion but they functioned at the pleasure of the military, who could and did interfere with their verdicts, so that citizens so unfortunate as to get arrested were virtually at the mercy of the military authorities.†
Chpt 4.37
Definition:
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(virtual as in: virtual organization) to almost be something; or to effectively be something without entirely being it in a traditional sense