perforce
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[edit] Etymology
From Middle English par force, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French par force (“by force”)
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[edit] Adverb
perforce (not comparable)
- (archaic) By force.
- 1593 — William Shakespeare, Richard III, Act iii, scene 1 (First Folio)
- If ſhe denie, Lord Hastings goe with him,
And from her iealous Armes pluck him perforce.
- If ſhe denie, Lord Hastings goe with him,
- 1593 — William Shakespeare, Richard III, Act iii, scene 1 (First Folio)
- Necessarily.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Episode 16
- So, bevelling around by Mullett's and the Signal House which they shortly reached, they proceeded perforce in the direction of Amiens street railway terminus
- 2006 — Alejandro Portes, Rubén G. Rumbaut, Immigrant America: A Portrait, 3rd ed., page 239
- Adult immigrants must perforce learn some English, and their children are likely to become English monolinguals.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Episode 16
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[edit] Translations
by force
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[edit] Verb
perforce (third-person singular simple present perforces, present participle perforcing, simple past and past participle perforced)