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perforce
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Definition:inevitably; by necessity
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It is a long way, and we shall not— an we do not hurry— get home before daybreak." Lord Fancourt had perforce to go.
Baroness Emmuska Orczy. The Scarlet Pimpernel
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Now we entered perforce the realm of invention.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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she was perforce decked out in a way so inconsistent with her age and her figure, that her one anxiety was to contrive that the contrast between these adornments and her own exterior should not be too appalling.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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I was sick exceedingly, and dizzy, and faint; and thus compelled perforce to accept lodgings under his roof.
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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Mr. Wickham's happiness and her own were perforce delayed a little longer,
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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He did not even introduce me to his wife—this courtesy devolving, per force, upon his sister Marian—a very sweet and intelligent girl, who, in a few hurried words, made us acquainted.
Edgar Allan Poe. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4: The Oblong Box (1844)
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For their word is perforce believed by virtue of their profession.
Agatha Christie. And Then There Were None. p.197 (1939)
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