ex facto
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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He has learned that in the practice of his art; and he will never learn it well, but when disengaged from the ardent struggle of immediate representation, of realistic and ex facto art.
From Project Gutenberg
Not the former; for our divines teach,357 that scandalum datum riseth sometimes, ex facto in se adiaphoro, when it is done intempestive, contra charitatis regulam.
From Project Gutenberg
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