Meanings of purely nominal in English

Now the difference between savings and checking accounts has become purely nominal.

With Dagmer Cleftjaw along as well, his command would be purely nominal.

The matter of competition in business was purely nominal.

But the relation of angelic guardianship has for some hundreds of years been a purely nominal one.

By the time of Sulla, when the league is mentioned for the last time, its functions were purely nominal.

Only the three Hanse towns of Hamburg, Bremen, and Lubeck renewed the compact, which, however, to-day is purely nominal.

The wealthier inhabitants distributed wine and flour at prices purely nominal, and lent Astorre money for the payment of his troops.

I had a distinct ticket for the Abbey where I had no duty to perform; and indeed throughout the day it was purely nominal.

This limitation of his punitive power was purely nominal, for the country was under martial law and the courts-martial had power to inflict death.

He would spend a few days in a purely nominal confinement in the city gaol, and then would be tried by impartial judges and released.

As Alfonso of Castile's pretensions were purely nominal, this election ended the Great Interregnum by restoring the empire on a narrower but more practical basis.

'"What do you call purely nominal?"

'Is purely nominal.'