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Definition of perforce in English: perforceadverb pəˈfɔːspərˈfɔrs formal Used to express necessity or inevitability. 〈正式〉必须,只得;必定 amateurs, perforce, have to settle for less expensive solutions 业余爱好者只得接受比较便宜的解决方案。 Example sentencesExamples - But just as W.B. Yeats had trouble separating the dancer from the dance, so too is it impossible to separate the more graceful moments from the ugly, at times horrifying, context in which they must perforce arise.
- Any modern understanding of the history of the region must perforce rely on the oral traditions.
- Motorists are becoming increasingly anarchical, but this could be simply a means to an end as anyone wishing to drive through Keighley these days must perforce adopt an aggressive attitude.
- Lurid black and white must perforce give way to reputable gray.
- Such a work of synthesis, he asserts, ‘must perforce construct its own rules of engagement.’
Synonyms necessarily, of necessity, inevitably, unavoidably, by force of circumstances, needs must Latin nolens volens informal like it or not
OriginMiddle English: from Old French par force 'by force'. Rhymescoarse, corse, course, divorce, endorse (US indorse), enforce, force, gorse, hoarse, horse, morse, Norse, reinforce, sauce, source, torse Definition of perforce in US English: perforceadverbpərˈfôrspərˈfɔrs formal Used to express necessity or inevitability. 〈正式〉必须,只得;必定 amateurs, perforce, have to settle for less expensive solutions 业余爱好者只得接受比较便宜的解决方案。 Example sentencesExamples - Any modern understanding of the history of the region must perforce rely on the oral traditions.
- Motorists are becoming increasingly anarchical, but this could be simply a means to an end as anyone wishing to drive through Keighley these days must perforce adopt an aggressive attitude.
- Such a work of synthesis, he asserts, ‘must perforce construct its own rules of engagement.’
- But just as W.B. Yeats had trouble separating the dancer from the dance, so too is it impossible to separate the more graceful moments from the ugly, at times horrifying, context in which they must perforce arise.
- Lurid black and white must perforce give way to reputable gray.
Synonyms necessarily, of necessity, inevitably, unavoidably, by force of circumstances, needs must
OriginMiddle English: from Old French par force ‘by force’. |