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See also:infact

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Etymology

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Fromfact(“deed, action”)(now obsolete, except in law). Perhaps ultimately acalque ofFrenchen fait.

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infact

  1. (law) Resulting from the actions ofparties.
    Coordinate terms:in law;de jure
  2. (modal)Actually;in truth;de facto.
    Synonyms:as a matter of fact,in actuality;see alsoThesaurus:actually
    People think he's rich, butin fact he's nearly penniless.
    • 1897 December (indicated as1898),Winston Churchill, chapter III, inThe Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.:The Macmillan Company; London:Macmillan & Co., Ltd.,→OCLC:
      Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself.In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.
    • 1913,Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, inThe Lodger, London:Methuen,→OCLC; republished inNovels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.:Longmans, Green and Co., […],[1933],→OCLC,page0016:
      A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.In fact, that arm-chair had been an extravagance of Mrs. Bunting. She had wanted her husband to be comfortable after the day's work was done, and she had paid thirty-seven shillings for the chair.
    • 1998, Donald N. Clark, “Sino-Korean tributary relations under the Ming”, inDenis Twitchett,Frederick W. Mote, editors,The Cambridge History of China‎[1], volume 8, number 2,Cambridge University Press,→ISBN,→LCCN,→OCLC,page286:
      Menggetimur (d. 1433),¹⁸ chief of the Odoli subtribe of the Chien-chou Jurchen, hadin fact moved into Korea south of the Tumen River. Because he offered tribute to the Choson court and had encamped at Hoeryŏng (Chinese: Hui-ning), the Koreans regarded him as their vassal.
    • 2015 August 8, Bob Holmes, “Ocean hills yield secret ecosystems”, inNew Scientist‎[2], number3033, archived fromthe original on5 September 2015, page14:
      We tend to think of the seafloor a few kilometres down as a flat plain.In fact, about two-thirds of this “abyssal” seabed is made up of gentle rolling hills a few hundred metres high, says Jennifer Durden at the University of Southampton, UK.
  3. Moreover.
    Synonym:as a matter of fact
    I don't have the time or patience to deal with him.In fact, I barely even have time for being here at all.

Translations

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actually, in truth
moreover—seemoreover
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