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factitious

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10 lettersPronunciation /fækˈtɪʃəs/Part of speech adjectiveSorted acfiiosttuStarts with FEnds with S0 clues
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Definitions

  1. not produced by natural forces

Word origin

Borrowed from Latin factītius (“artificial”), alternative form of factīcius, from faciō (“to make, do”). Doublet of fetish.

Used in a sentence

  • Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them.
  • Manners are partly factitious, but, mainly, there must be capacity for culture in the blood. Else all culture is vain.
  • […] To prevent a prisoner's escape, to prevent his suborning testimony, and arranging a factitious tale with those without, may justify many precautions."

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