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Definition of "facts of life" []

  • Plural form of fact of life. (noun)
  • Knowledge of sexual reproduction (almost always used with the) (noun)

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Use "facts of life" in a sentence
  • "For Górky, the Bitter One, is essentially a Russian in his grasp on the facts of life and in his treatment."
  • "Until he was forty he was a believer in English Protestantism; afterwards he could not reconcile current beliefs with the facts of life as he saw them, and had to reconstruct his creed from the foundations."
  • "They may deny God's freedom, or even His personality, and their necessitarian metaphysics may be radically at variance with the true doctrine of His providence and grace; they may attempt to explain the thought processes of the brain, and even life itself, by physical and chemical laws; yet their impression of the co-ordinated facts of life and nature is thoroughly Calvinistic."