perforce

American  

[per-fawrs, -fohrs] / pərˈfɔrs, -ˈfoʊrs /

adverb

1. of necessity; necessarily; by force of circumstance.

   The story must perforce be true.

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perforce British  

/ pəˈfɔːs /

adverb

1. by necessity; unavoidably

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Etymology

Origin of perforce

1300–50; per + force; replacing Middle English par force < Middle French

Example Sentences

But such moments aren’t perforce life-altering, and the partners and faculty members weren’t actually wielding the authority of a deity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026

That was a closed-loop cemetery system: the nonnative Americans living here were perforce Spanish and Mexican, and Catholic, and often buried in mission graveyards.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2024

Methane is a carbon-based molecule, so many of the ingredients for life are perforce there.

From Scientific American • Jul. 6, 2023

Any excerpt, though, will perforce be more satisfying than the sum of this musical’s busy parts.

From Washington Post • Apr. 6, 2022

To advocate placing such information in the public record, Strauss asserted, was perforce an act of disloyalty.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik