factify

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Verb 1.1.1 Quotations 1.1.2 Dictionary notes

[edit] English

The term “factify” is considered a neologism based on standardized Wiktionary criteria. Neologisms are newly acknowledged terms. They typically have not been in circulation long enough or widely enough for their social status to be determined. Neologisms can be nonces, slang terms, or even illiteracies. The citation of “factify” may be restricted to certain other contexts that have not been fully investigated, such as industry jargon or regional use. The term may not generally be understood even within those contexts.

[edit] Verb

factify

1. To establish truth or validity by presentation of factual evidence.

[edit] Quotations

• 1999 September 9, Jerry Hull, “Re: Metaphysical Death Match: Mental vs. Physical”, comp.ai.philosophy, Usenet

  the machinery you use to construct this comforting world of facts involves things that don't themselves belong in that world. When you build your construct you conveniently forget all the stuff that does not end up as part of it. But, of course, we can factify anything. There is a table, there is a blurriness, there is a sensation of hardness

• 2001 March 3, Pat Dooley, “Re: Re: Susanna Hall's Signature”, humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare, Usenet

  Where appropriate, Diana qualifies her statements. She does not transmute impersonal evidence into personal evidence to create a personality for Shakespeare as Schoenbaum does. She does not factify myth, as I show Park Honan and Anthony Holden doing above.

• 2002 November 23, Sarah Cardwell, Adaptation Revisited: Television and the Classic Novel, Manchester University Press

  Such ambitions of authenticity function to factify the fiction, literally to prop it up, performing a positivist role as the tangible trace of a lost era.

[edit] Dictionary notes

• 1996, The Wordsworth Thesaurus for home, office and study