Perforce
[pə'fɔːs] or [pɚ'fɔrs]
Definition
(adv.) By force; of necessary; at any rate.
(v. t.) To force; to compel.
Checker: Roy
Definition
adv. by force: of necessity.
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Examples
- He had halted opposite the Trenors' corner, and Selden perforce stayed his steps also. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- At last a day and night of peculiarly agonizing depression were succeeded by physical illness, I took perforce to my bed. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Thomasin was perforce content. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Mr. Wickham's happiness and her own were perforce delayed a little longer, and Mr. Collins's proposal accepted with as good a grace as she could. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- He was in the Charybdis of passion, and must perforce circle and circle ever nearer round the fatal centre. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- But when we are going over the quiet country we must perforce be calm. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Every servant also was owed the greater part of his wages, and thus kept up perforce an interest in the house. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross. Jane Austen. Emma.
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