must needs
Verb
Meaning
must needs (third-person singular simple present must needs, no present participle, simple past must needs, no past participle)
(dated) A pleonastic intensification of must using the adverb needs, meaning “must necessarily”.
Synonyms
Examples
Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.
It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals.
They must needs go whom the Devil drives.
He who will not serve one master must needs serve many.
One must needs like what one cannot hinder.
He who cannot do what he wishes, must needs do as he can.