PERFORCE meaning: Necessarily by force of circumstances

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perforce: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
perforce: Merriam-Webster
perforce: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
perforce: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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perforce: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
perforce: Wiktionary
perforce: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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Perforce, perforce: Dictionary.com
perforce: Online Etymology Dictionary
Perforce: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Perforce: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
perforce: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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perforce: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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▸ adverb:  (archaic) By force.
▸ adverb:  By constraint of circumstances; of necessity, inevitably, unavoidably; as a matter of course.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To force; to compel.

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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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