perforce

[per-fawrs, -fohrs] /pərˈfɔrs, -ˈfoʊrs/

adverb

of necessity; necessarily; by force of circumstance:

The story must perforce be true.

Origin

1300-50; per + force; replacing Middle English par force < Middle French

Examples from the web for perforce

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Your moral bankruptcy antedates your fraud perforce.
And since artists and those who sell and buy their work must perforce eat, cafes and restaurants have followed.
Every painter must perforce apply pigment in irregular patches.
perforce it is reasonable to be alarmed to, explain their alarm, and to insist something be done.
Statehood would, perforce, put an end to such license.
Third, if an argument uses a slippery slope that does not mean it's perforce wrong.
If you would understand his plays, you must perforce know something of his life.
And so he took the king's horse by the bridle and led him away in a manner perforce.
There they slew many of us with the edge of the sword, and others they led up with them alive to work for them perforce.

British Dictionary definitions for perforce

/pəˈfɔːs/

adverb

by necessity; unavoidably

Word Origin

C14: from Old French par force; see per, force1

Word Origin and History for perforce

adv.

early 14c., par force, from Old French par force (12c.), literally "by force" (see force). With Latin per substituted 17c. for French cognate par.