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Factual   Listen
adjective
factual  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to facts; as, factual inaccuracies. (R.)
2.
Containing only facts (as contrasted with opinions or speculations); as, a factual report.






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"Factual" Quotes from Famous Books



... describe her knowledge. He kept his own secrets, hundreds of them; and he had, in a way, astounded and shocked her by his suicide. Yet, in another way, this miserable termination did not at all surprise her; and his secrets were petty, factual things of no essential import, which left her mystic ...
— Leonora • Arnold Bennett

... should not be considered factual. It is not that there was no such man — indeed there was, and other accounts indicate that Francis Marion is as deserving of praise as this account would indicate — or moreso. It is not that the events described did not take place — most ...
— The Life of General Francis Marion • Mason Locke Weems

... Cities could survive without the help of Earth, and the Supreme Congress of the United Nations of Earth knew it. But they also knew that "survive" did not by any means have the same semantic or factual content as "live comfortably". If Earth were to vanish overnight, the people of the Belt would live, but they would be seriously handicapped. On the other hand, the people of Earth could survive—as they had for ...
— Thin Edge • Gordon Randall Garrett

... sixty centuries of interested scrutiny she remains very much a mystery—to eminent physicians as well as others. Her mind seems to bewilder the psychologists no less than her body puzzles the physiologists—both find the factual impossible and the self-evident absurd. Dr. Maxwell has discovered, however, that comparatively few women marry men whom they would select were they free to inspect the entire human penfold and make a choice of a mate. Now if he will conjoin that fact ...
— Volume 1 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann

... poetry virtually ignored by other contemporary biographers and memorialists.[16] Furthermore, he employs footnotes skillfully. Though they impede the progress of the poem, they do support poetic statement with factual evidence and explain and amplify certain ...
— A Poetical Review of the Literary and Moral Character of the late Samuel Johnson (1786) • John Courtenay



Words linked to "Factual" :   factuality, real, actual, fact, existent, factualness



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