before the fact

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before the fact

  1. (law) Before the commission of a crime.
    Coordinate term: after the fact
    accessory before the fact
  2. Assumed prior to factual study; ipso facto true, good, or correct; a priori.
    Coordinate term: after the fact
    • 2021, Amia Srinivasan, “Preface”, in The Right to Sex, Bloomsbury:
      Feminism envisaged as a 'home' insists on commonality before the fact, pushing aside all those who would trouble its domestic idyll.

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