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Ipso Facto

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What does Ipso Facto mean?

adverb

  1. By that very fact itself; actually.

adjective

  1. Being such by itself, or by its own definition; inherent.

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Every successful man, every idea that forces itself into recognition, ceases, ipso facto, to be called in question.
Gustave Le BonThe crowd : $b A study of the popular mindProject Gutenberg ebook #445
Please her appetite, And do it home; it cures her, ipso facto, The melancholy humour that infects her.
William ShakespeareThe Complete Works of William ShakespeareProject Gutenberg ebook #100
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Such is the general rule, which no one can escape without being, ipso facto struck with dishonor or suspected of fraud.
P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) ProudhonSystem of Economical Contradictions; Or, The Philosophy of MiseryProject Gutenberg ebook #444
In the one world what you imagine is real; in the other what you desire is ipso facto accomplished.
A. C. (Albert Charles) SewardDarwin and Modern ScienceProject Gutenberg ebook #1909
Whatever the captain does is right, ipso facto, and any opposition to it is wrong, on board ship; and every officer and man knows this when he signs the ship's articles.
Richard Henry DanaTwo Years Before the MastProject Gutenberg ebook #2055