perforce

adv

1. (not-comparable)By constraint of circumstances; of necessity; as a matter of course.

   “Mr. Wickham's happiness and her own were perforce delayed a little longer, and Mr. Collins's proposal accepted with as good a grace as she could..”

   “"Keep fast thy hold, for by such stairs as these," The Master said, panting as one fatigued, "Must we perforce depart from so much evil."”

   “So, bevelling around by Mullett's and the Signal House which they shortly reached, they proceeded perforce in the direction of Amiens street railway terminus”

   “Accordingly work perforce had to be begun. The first sod was cut at Anley, near Settle, in November, 1869, […]”

   “It was by no means pleasant to realize that there was an unknown number of menaces up there over your head, quietly circling and circling until someone should arrange for them to drop - and that there was nothing to be done about them. Still, life has to go on - and novelty is a wonderfully short-lived thing. One became used to the idea perforce.”

2. (archaic, not-comparable)By force.

   “If ſhe denie, Lord Hastings goe with him, And from her iealous Armes pluck him perforce.”

   “For you, most wicked sir, whom to call brother Would even infect my mouth, I do forgive Thy rankest fault; all of them; and require My dukedom of thee, which, perforce, I know Thou must restore.”

verb

1. (obsolete)To force; to compel.