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adverb
of necessity; necessarily; by force of circumstance: The story must perforce be true.
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| —adv | |
| by necessity; unavoidably | |
| [C14: from Old French par force; see | |
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Perforce
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| 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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Word Origin & History
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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Example sentences
If you would understand his plays, you must perforce know something of his life.
Perforce it is reasonable to be alarmed to, explain their alarm, and to insist something be done.
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.
Archaeological, ethnographic, historic and contemporary perspectives perforce overlap and become blurred.
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