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factify en · VERB

Etymology

Etymology tree English fact Latin -i- Proto-Italic *-fakos Latin -ficus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin -ficō Latin -ificāreder. Old French -ifierbor. Middle English -ifien English -ify English factify From fact + -ify.

Meanings

1. To establish truth or validity by presentation of factual evidence.
   • Where appropriate, Diana qualifies her statements. She does not transmute impersonal evidence into personal evidence to create a personality for Shakespeare as Schoenbaum does. She does not factify myth, as I show Park Honan and Anthony Holden doing above. 2001 March 3, Pat Dooley, “Re: Re: Susanna Hall's Signature”, in humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare (Usenet):
   • Such ambitions of authenticity function to factify the fiction, literally to prop it up, performing a positivist role as the tangible trace of a lost era. 2002 November 23, Sarah Cardwell, Adaptation Revisited: Television and the Classic Novel, Manchester University Press:
   • the machinery you use to construct this comforting world of facts involves things that don't themselves belong in that world. When you build your construct you conveniently forget all the stuff that does not end up as part of it. But, of course, we can factify anything. There is a table, there is a blurriness, there is a sensation of hardness 1999 September 9, Jerry Hull, “Re: Metaphysical Death Match: Mental vs. Physical”, in comp.ai.philosophy (Usenet):

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