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Perforce
is always a great word to know.
So is slumgullion. Does it mean:
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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- And since artists and those who sell and buy their work must perforce eat, cafes and restaurants have followed.
- Your moral bankruptcy antedates your fraud perforce.
- Every painter must perforce apply pigment in irregular patches.
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perforce
early 14c., par force, from O.Fr. par force (12c.), lit. "by force" (see force). With L. per substituted 17c. for Fr. cognate par.
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