DE JURE • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of De jure

... appeared that we recognise that he came at the hour; but the nature of the hour is in this case not difficult to be discerned. The habit of playgoing was well-established; the turmoil of the Revolution was over; De Jure was at a comfortable distance, and De Facto's wife was a patroness of the arts. But playgoers had but to be shown something better than that they had, to discover that the convention of the Restoration needed new blood. A justification of its ...

— The Comedies of William Congreve - Volume 1 [of 2] • William Congreve