perforce
of necessity; necessarily; by force of circumstance: The story must perforce be true.
Origin of perforce
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How to use perforce in a sentence
That hope also went, perforce, into the deeply compromised political system that Obama would lead.
Progressive-palooza: On Obama, Occupy, and Moral Monday | Jedediah Purdy | July 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIts use, in place of the hard and empty-toned Diapasons to which we had perforce become accustomed, is rapidly growing.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building | George Laing MillerThis in English would be meaningless, and was perforce replaced by what seems to be a fair equivalent.
Cyrano de Bergerac | Edmond RostandThe fevered mules plunged in headlong and drank greedily; the riders were perforce obliged to slake their thirst after them.
Overland | John William De ForestHad they spoken she would perforce have believed them; but then, as she herself said, it would have made "so little difference."
With Edged Tools | Henry Seton Merriman
The Author of his own Memoirs must perforce speak frequently, nay constantly, about himself.
British Dictionary definitions for perforce
/ (pəˈfɔːs) /
by necessity; unavoidably
Origin of perforce
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