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perforce

[ per-fawrs, -fohrs ]

adverb

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

    The story must perforce be true.



perforce

/ ±èəˈ´Úɔ˲õ /

adverb

  1. by necessity; unavoidably
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of perforce1

1300–50; per + force; replacing Middle English par force < Middle French
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of perforce1

C14: from Old French par force; see per , force 1
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Kirsten Menger-Anderson’s new book, “The Expert of Subtle Revisions,†does just that, while exploring the way history is perforce affected by how it is told and who does the telling.

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Even people’s pets were bought up, or perforce left behind.

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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.

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

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Elizabeth II was perforce a kind of cipher, less a personality than a series of roles, a virtually voiceless princess, a daughter, wife, mother, and at last queen.

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