post factum
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.77 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
After the fact; after the focus of an activity has already occurred.
Example Sentences
- "But if Mark recorded this prophecy post factum, he risked nothing and, as we have demonstrated above, he gained a great deal (Jesus is confirmed as a great prophet, God is understood as in control in the midst of crisis, encouragement is given to confused and frightened disciples, and the power of Rome is disarmed)."
- "It was not found necessary either in the formulation of the hypotheses or in the explanations offered post factum to appeal to any innate language-specific capacity."
- "Merton cautioned against confusing post factum sociological interpretations with social theory."
- "Parallel to this is an interest in the notion of post factum documentation, that is, when the 'designerly' drawings have supposedly stopped."
Etymology
From Latin: "after the fact".