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fact (1 now used only in phrases such as ‘after the fact’, ‘before the fact’)
1. deed, esp. evil deed, crime 1H6 IV. i. 30 “this was infamous,” Mac. III. vi. 10 “damned fact!,” Lucr. 349.
2. “in the fact,” in the very act 2H6 II. i. 171.
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.

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