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Defacto vs Actually - What's the difference?

defacto | actually |

As a noun defacto

is .

As an adverb actually is

(modal) in act or in fact; really; in truth; positively.

defacto

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • * 1992 , University of New South Wales Aboriginal Law Research Unit, Aboriginal Law Bulletin , Issue 31, unidentified page,
    • Homicide, assault, rape, and suicide occur as a result of Aboriginal men?s fear of loss of a valued relationship and jealousy over their wives or defactos .
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  • * 2001 , Jude McCulloch, Blue Army: Paramilitary Policing in Australia , page 51,
    • The police rolehas tended to exclude a whole class of people — wives, defactos', girlfriends and daughters, or past wives, ' defactos and girlfriends from the protection of the criminal law, too often with tragic consequences.
  • * 2007 , Jo Barnes, 4: Murder Followed by Suicide in Australia, 1973—1992: A research note'', Diane Kholos Wysocki, ''Readings in Social Research Methods , page 36,
    • Of the 250 victims in this sample, 50.4 percent were or had been in an intimate relationship with the offender (intimates are defined as present and past spouses, defactos and lovers).
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    actually

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (modal) In act or in fact; really; in truth; positively.
    • Actually , I had nothing to do with that incident.
  • (obsolete) actively
    • Neither actually nor passively. — Fuller.

    Alternative forms

    * actially (nonstandard)

    Usage notes

    * In some other languages a word of similar spelling means "now" or "currently"; (e.g., Portuguese "atualmente", Spanish "actualmente", French "actuellement", German "aktuell", Italian "attualmente", Czech ""). This leads many non-native speakers of English to use "actually" when they mean "now" or "currently". * Some commentators have: *
  • remarked upon the irony that this qualifier of veracity often introduces an utter lie;, page 3 and,
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  • noted that in many cases, (term) functions as little more than a vacuous emphatic utterance.ibidem , page 4
    • * In practice, actually and its synonyms are often used to insinuate that the following is either unusual or contrary to a norm or preceding assumption, or to merely preface an overconfident opinion contrasting a previous statement or norm (as per 'vacuous emphasis' note above). : This is actually a really beautiful song. (contrasting opinion) : Actually , I'm not from France - I'm from Switzerland. (contrary from assumption) : At the check-out, the cashier actually greeted me for once. (contrary from norm)

    Synonyms

    * in reality * literally * really * truthfully

    References

    English modal adverbs English words suffixed with -ly