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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

in point of fact en · ADP

Meanings

  1. (modal) Actually.
    • Being in point of fact a complete bundle of nerves and nothing else, his thin figure shook like a harp-string in painful excitement at a contretemps which would scarcely have quickened the pulse of an ordinary man. 1895, Thomas Hardy, chapter 22, in The Hand of Ethelberta:
    • In point of fact, Whitmore wasn't just a slow cummer, but rather unable to have an orgasm whenever anyone else was present. 2013, David Bergman, The Violet Hour, page 186:
    • I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. 1885, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert; Arthur Sullivan, composer, “Poo-Bah”, in […] The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu, London: Chappel & Co., […], →OCLC:

Relateds

in point of

Synonyms

in fact · as a matter of fact

Translations (6)

is í raun og veru (actually) · is í sannleika sagt (actually) · es a decir verdad (actually) · is satt að segja (actually) · es en rigor de verdad (actually) · es en honor a la verdad (actually)