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perforce

[ UK /pˈɜːfɔːs/ ]
[ US /pɝˈfɔɹs/ ]
ADVERB
  1. by necessity; by force of circumstance

How To Use perforce In A Sentence

  • Chovos Halevovos in Shaar Hateshuva points out that the one advantage that a Baal Teshuva always holds over a "natural" tsaddik is that the Baal Teshuvah must perforce be humble and submissive. Avakesh
  • Besides the lives of myriads of British men, conquering on a hundred fields, from Plassey to Meanee, and bathing them cruore nostro: think of the women, and the tribute which they perforce must pay to those victorious achievements. The Newcomes
  • The man who dwells for long periods face to face with the bitter truths of life learns so to distrust a fleeting moment of joy, gives habitually so cold a reception to the tardy messenger of delight, that, when the bright guest outdares his churlishness and perforce tarries with him, there ensues a passionate revulsion unknown to hearts which open readily to every fluttering illusive bliss. The Unclassed
  • So the friend, a buyer for one of the Chicago wholesale perforce , the necessity of stopping.
  • In an open _shamianah_, [4] eight or ten men divided their attention between a table at the back of the tent and the four ladies of the station, who perforce converted military events into those friendly gatherings which are the mainstay of Anglo-Indian life. Captain Desmond, V.C.
  • The "nighty" was, perforce, absent, much to the sorrow of Ann; but the witchery of the glorious voice entered again into the woman's soul, and, indeed, sent the entire congregation home in an awed silence that was the height of admiring homage. The Tangled Threads
  • `My colleague and I are from the police," he said perforce, speaking slowly and distinctly. DEATH SPEAKS SOFTLY
  • Now an elder statesman, ambition frustrated but perforce sated, he is positioned to tell a riveting story.Sentence dictionary
  • Perforce, he was compelled to thaw it out in the usual way; that is, taking off his kamik and placing his freezing foot under my bearskin shirt, the heat of my body thawing out the frozen member. A Negro Explorer at the North Pole
  • The reason for this might have been found in the fact that acquired characteristics do not receive the stamp of heredity in one generation — his father was a self-made man, and had taught himself rigidly to conventionalise; and it might have been found in the fact that his mother had impressed upon his youthful mind the code of polite procedure in a way which made it appear an unpleasant duty — a mask, highly distasteful, but which must perforce be donned under certain conditions. THE UNMASKING OF A CAD
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