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Bonafide vs Defacto - What's the difference?

bonafide | defacto |

As an adjective bonafide

is made sincerely, in good faith.

As a noun defacto is

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bonafide

English

Adjective

  • made sincerely, in good faith
  • genuine or authentic

    • Synonyms

    * authentic * genuine

    Antonyms

    * counterfeit * bogus

    Related terms

    * bona fide

    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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