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

in due time
in earnest
in earnest(p)
in effect
in effect(p)
in effigy
in esse
in essence
in everyone's thoughts
in evidence
in exchange
in existence
in extenso
in extremis
in face of
in fact (current term)
in fashion
in favor of
in fee
in fetters(p)
in fine
in fine fettle
in fiscal matters
in flames
in flight
in flood(p)
in flower
in focus
in focus(p)

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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