ipso facto

Ipso facto is Latin and is defined as by the fact.

(adverb)

If all squares are rectangles and all rectangles have four sides, this is an example of when a square has four sides ipso facto.

See ipso facto in Webster's New World College Dictionary

by that very fact

Origin: L

See ipso facto in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adverb

By the fact itself; by that very fact: An alien, ipso facto, has no right to a U.S. passport.

Origin:

Origin: New Latin ipsō factō

Origin: : Latin ipsō

Origin: , ablative of ipse, itself

Origin: + Latin factō

Origin: , ablative of factum, fact

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