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[ noun ] the state of actually existing objectively
Examples : "a hope that progressed from possibility to actuality" Used in print (James Boylan, "Mutinity"...)Greene was in actuality a young ruffian from Kent , who had broken_with his parents in_order to keep the company he preferred - pimps , panders and whores . (Arlin Turner, "William Faulkner, Southern Novelist"...)The myth of the Southern plantation has had only a tangential relation with actuality , as Francis_Pendleton_Gaines showed forty years ago , and I suspect it has had a far narrower acceptance as something real than has generally been supposed . Such a comparison reminds us that in employing low characters in his works Faulkner is recording actuality in the South and moreover is following a long established literary precedent . (Harry Olesker, Impact....)The enormity of what Conrad had told him made it impossible for Gilborn to accept , with any degree of realism , the actuality of it . |
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