Dictionary

before the fact en · ADP

Meanings

1. Before the commission of a crime.
   • accessory before the fact
2. Assumed prior to factual study; ipso facto true, good, or correct; a priori.
   • Feminism envisaged as a 'home' insists on commonality before the fact, pushing aside all those who would trouble its domestic idyll. 2021, Amia Srinivasan, “Preface”, in The Right to Sex, Bloomsbury:

Coordinates

after the fact · after the fact

Translations (2)

fi ennen rikosta (before the commission of a crime) · pl przed przestępstwem (before the commission of a crime)