IN POINT OF FACT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does in point of fact mean? 

• IN POINT OF FACT (adverb)
  The adverb IN POINT OF FACT has 1 sense:

1. in reality or actuality

  Familiarity information: IN POINT OF FACT used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IN POINT OF FACT (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In reality or actuality

Synonyms:

as a matter of fact; in fact; in point of fact

Context example:

as a matter of fact, he is several inches taller than his father

 Context examples 

In point of fact, it is not a thought.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

In point of fact, because of the stuff I had written they seemed to care even less for me.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

In point of fact, the cuff was rarely administered.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

In point of fact the three actions of perceiving, determining, and responding were sequential; but so infinitesimal were the intervals of time between them that they appeared simultaneous.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

In point of fact, we were playing at Puss in the Corner.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

In point of fact, he rarely ceased from rubbing them, and sometimes, as their numbness increased, he rubbed fiercely.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

In point of fact, the chief vent to this primal melancholy has been religion in its more agonizing forms.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“The man’s soul is his desires. Or, if you will, the sum of his desires is his soul. Therein you are both wrong. You lay the stress upon the desire apart from the soul, Miss Brewster lays the stress on the soul apart from the desire, and in point of fact soul and desire are the same thing.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)