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Definition of Perforce
1. Adverb. By necessity; by force of circumstance.
Definition of Perforce
1. adv. By force; of necessary; at any rate.
2. v. t. To force; to compel.
Definition of Perforce
1. Adverb. (archaic) By force. ¹
2. Adverb. Necessarily. ¹
3. Verb. (obsolete) To force; to compel. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Perforce
1. of necessity [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Perforce
Literary usage of Perforce
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary to the Works of William Shakespeare by Alexander Dyce (1902)
"95: take perforce my husband from the abbess, vi 117; she perforce withholds the
loved boy, ... 26; what he hath taken away from thy father perforce, AYL i. ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1902)
"... passengers pay the fare, and land, it would seem somewhere about the Temple
Stairs, not in comfort. They plunge, perforce, through a terrible tenebroso ..."
3. 'Hail and Farewell!' by George Moore (1912)
"... all great poetry flows, and this spring is perforce closed to Catholic writers
for ever. Do you know the beautiful stanza in Moschus' Lament for Bion ? ..."
4. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"... trade of England being thus ruined, the kingdom must perforce submit to Napoleon.
But as England was the beet customer of the European states, ..."
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