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Definition of Matter-of-fact
1. Adjective. Not fanciful or imaginative. "A prosaic and unimaginative essay"
2. Adjective. Concerned with practical matters. "A matter-of-fact account of the trip"
Definition of Matter-of-fact
1. Adjective. of, or relating to facts only; literal, realistic ¹
2. Adjective. lacking emotion or colour ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Matter-of-fact
Literary usage of Matter-of-fact
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, Thomas McIntyre Cooley (1884)
"... or matter of fact. The form of such demurrer is by averring the declaration
or plea, the repli- r*315l ca*'on or rejoinder, to be insufficient *in law ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"There was no issue tendered on matter of fact that was left undecided, and no
matter of law affecting the merits that was not adjudged. ..."
3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"... in independent or direct value-judgments, some of his critics accused him of
constructing a quasi-Feuer- bachian theology. As a matter of fact, however, ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"In Christ's work of redemption merit and satisfaction materially coincide almost
to their full ex tent, since as a matter of fact the merits of Christ are ..."
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