"in all but name" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1839, Edgar Allan Poe, “William Wilson”, in Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, published 1940, page 29",
          "text": "Thenceforth my voice was a household law; and at an age when few children have abandoned their leading-strings, I was left to the guidance of my own will, and became, in all but name, the master of my own actions.",
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          "ref": "1935, Christopher Isherwood, chapter 5, in Mr Norris Changes Trains, Penguin, published 1942, page 49",
          "text": "‘Do you mean to say that you’ve become a communist?’\n‘In all but name, William, yes. In all but name.’",
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          "text": "2012, Katie Kitamura, Gone to the Forest, New York: Free Press, Chapter 5, p. 76,\nHe thinks: I have been running the farm in all but name. Leave and nothing here will change. You will see."
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        "In practice, though in an unacknowledged way."
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          "word": "de facto"
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          "word": "for all intents and purposes"
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          "word": "for all practical purposes"
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  "word": "in all but name"
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          "text": "2012, Katie Kitamura, Gone to the Forest, New York: Free Press, Chapter 5, p. 76,\nHe thinks: I have been running the farm in all but name. Leave and nothing here will change. You will see."
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