before the fact

prep_phrase — 2 senses

before the fact

prep_phrase

1

Law Before the commission of a crime.

accessory before the fact

2

Assumed prior to factual study; ipso facto true, good, or correct; a priori.

Feminism envisaged as a 'home' insists on commonality before the fact, pushing aside all those who would trouble its domestic idyll.2021, Amia Srinivasan, “Preface”, in The Right to Sex, Bloomsbury:

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