actuality
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From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2010
Actuality put the lie to most prophecies long before anybody in the U.S. had even heard of the Ayatullah Khomeini or imagined the trouble he would bring.
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Actuality was thereby imparted to the idea, which is destined to remain in the forefront of contemporary politics until the peoples themselves embody it in viable institutions.
From The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Dillon, Emile Joseph
Actuality had been dethroned by some dream wizardry and left him free of obligation to reason.
From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Lundsford, Hugh
They are not to inquire as to the Justice of the law, its Constitutionality, or its Legality; nor the Justice or the Criminality of the deed—only of its Actuality, Did he do this deed?
From The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence by Parker, Theodore
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