perforce

Speech parts

1. perforce - Verb

2. perforce - Adverb

Meaning

By force; of necessary; at any rate.

To force; to compel.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

consequently need necessary always needs necessarily naturally automatically certainly necessity accordingly fundamentally inevitably surely weakly

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Antonyms

optionally on purpose in spite of the prerequisite in spite of the wish notwithstanding the need to notwithstanding the requirement to

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Examples

Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit. Honoré de Balzac

On our Earth, we've perforce learned all the knavery there is to know. Poul Anderson

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again. George R. R. Martin

To give people pleasure in the things they must perforce use, that is one great office of decoration; to give people pleasure in the things they must perforce make, that is the other use of it. William Morris

We can, we must, jumble up the categories of reform and revolution, preferring change that, though perforce piecemeal, may, in its cumulative effect, become revolutionary. Roberto Mangabeira Unger

All modern U.S. presidents are perforce politicians, prisoners of their past pronouncements, their party, their constituency, and their colleagues. Tony Judt

Close letter words and terms

perforator perforatorium perforatus perforin perform perform a daring act