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‖ ipso facto, advb. phr.|ˈɪpsəʊ ˈfæktəʊ| [L.] By that very fact; by the fact itself.
1548Act 2 & 3 Edw. VI, c. 1 §1 The same person..shall therefore be deprived ipso facto of all his spirituall promocions. 1647Sanderson Serm. II. 214 By taking Christendom upon us at our Baptism, we did ipso facto renounce the world. 1790Sir P. Francis Let. Burke in B's Corr. (1844) III. 129 The best possible critic of the Iliad would be, ipso facto, and by virtue of that very character, incapable of being the author of it. 1870J. H. Newman Gram. Assent ii. x. 433 In rejecting their Divine King, they ipso facto lost the living principle and tie of their nationality. |