Usually means: Necessarily, by necessity, or unavoidably.
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  1. perforce: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. perforce: Merriam-Webster
  3. perforce: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. perforce: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  10. perforce: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  14. perforce: Online Etymology Dictionary
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  16. Perforce: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. perforce: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  20. perforce: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (perforce)

▸ adverb:  (archaic) By force.
▸ adverb:  By constraint of circumstances; of necessity, inevitably, unavoidably; as a matter of course.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To force; to compel.

Similar:
affor, aforetimes, amaine, forthy, strainably, ofttime, forthby, avore, oftenwhiles, Forby, more...

Opposite:
voluntarily, willingly, freely

Adjectives:
wise, content, pitiless, silent, many, last, latter, cruel, idle, close, speechless


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Similar:
affor, aforetimes, amaine, forthy, strainably, ofttime, forthby, avore, oftenwhiles, Forby, more...

Opposite:
voluntarily, willingly, freely

Adjectives:
wise, content, pitiless, silent, many, last, latter, cruel, idle, close, speechless



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