ipso facto

1. 1.

   by the fact itself

   “ipso facto, her innocence was established”

Questions about ipso facto

What does ipso facto mean?

ipso facto means "by the fact itself".

Is ipso facto a common word?

ipso facto is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.