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fact

fact (plural facts)

1. (archaic) Action; the realm of action.
   • 1622, Francis Bacon, The History of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh, page 1:

     After that Richard, the third of that name, king in fact only, but tyrant both in title and regiment […] was […] overthrown and slain at Bosworth Field; there succeeded in the kingdom […] Henry the Seventh.

2. (obsolete except in set phrases) A wrongful or criminal deed.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.ix:

     She was empassiond at that piteous act, / With zelous enuy of Greekes cruell fact, / Against that nation [...].

   He had become an accessory after the fact.

3. (obsolete) Feat.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:

     When he who most excels in fact of arms,

4. An honest observation.
5. Something actual as opposed to invented.

   In this story, the Gettysburg Address is a fact, but the rest is fiction.

6. Something which has become real.

   The promise of television became a fact in the 1920s.

7. Something concrete used as a basis for further interpretation.

   Lets look at the facts of the case before deciding.

8. An objective consensus on a fundamental reality that has been agreed upon by a substantial number of people.

   There is no doubting the fact that the Earth orbits the Sun.

9. Information about a particular subject.

   The facts about space travel.

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