Definitions

ipso facto

[ip-soh fak-toh] / ˈɪp soʊ ˈfæk toʊ /

ADVERB

by the fact itself

Synonyms

WEAK

actually by that very fact

Example Sentences

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Therefore, we'll call it ipso facto, he'll be guilty.

From Salon • Oct. 8, 2022

"All I'm saying is you don't ipso facto believe somebody," she said.

From Fox News • May 20, 2020

A liberal arts education does not ipso facto lead to a life of low-wage jobs and financial irresponsibility.

From Slate • Nov. 10, 2019

Christopher Hitchens called it “an extraordinarily irritating book, written by one of those people who smugly believe that, having lost their faith, they must ipso facto have found their reason”.

From The Guardian • Nov. 29, 2017

By an act of the 17th of July 1862 any slave of a disloyal master who was in territory occupied by northern troops was declared ipso facto free.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various