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Definition of In fact
1. Adverb. In reality or actuality. "As a matter of fact, he is several inches taller than his father"
Definition of In fact
1. Adverb. (legal) Resulting from the actions of parties. ¹
2. Adverb. (idiomatic modal) actually, in truth. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of In Fact
Literary usage of In fact
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York by Daniel Defoe (1790)
"... things that I had never heard of, and that were yet all of them true in fact:
but it was fo warm in my imagina- ' tion, and fo realized to me, ..."
2. Walden; Or, Life in the Woods: Or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau (1893)
"... in fact answered the same purpose as the Iliad. It would be worth the while
to build still more deliberately than I did, considering, for instance, ..."
3. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James (1902)
"Partial and conditional salvation is in fact a most familiar notion when taken
in the ... I think, in fact, that a final philosophy of religion will have to ..."
4. The Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert: Embracing Romances, Travels by Gustave Flaubert, Ferdinand Brunetière (1904)
""For, in fact, what is it they want? The duty on meat and arrest for debt ...
in fact, not knowing how to maintain the three hundred thousand men in the ..."
5. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York by Daniel Defoe (1790)
"... things that I had never heard of, and that were yet all of them true in fact:
but it was fo warm in my imagina- ' tion, and fo realized to me, ..."
6. Walden; Or, Life in the Woods: Or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau (1893)
"... in fact answered the same purpose as the Iliad. It would be worth the while
to build still more deliberately than I did, considering, for instance, ..."
7. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James (1902)
"Partial and conditional salvation is in fact a most familiar notion when taken
in the ... I think, in fact, that a final philosophy of religion will have to ..."
8. The Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert: Embracing Romances, Travels by Gustave Flaubert, Ferdinand Brunetière (1904)
""For, in fact, what is it they want? The duty on meat and arrest for debt ...
in fact, not knowing how to maintain the three hundred thousand men in the ..."
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