cannot but
Verb
Meaning
cannot but (third-person singular simple present cannot but, no present participle, simple past could not but, no past participle)
To have to; to cannot help; to be unable to do otherwise than.
Synonyms
Examples
Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
Musique and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
Noting all these things with the great delight which learning gives, we cannot but be stirred by these discoveries when we reflect upon the influence of them one by one.
The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
One who believes, as I do, that the free intellect is the chief engine of human progress, cannot but be fundamentally opposed to Bolshevism, as much as to the Church of Rome.
Coercion cannot but result in chaos in the end.