Citations:perforce

Adverb: By force; of necessity

 * 1593 — William Shakespeare, Richard III, Act iii, scene 1 (First Folio)
 * If ſhe denie, Lord Hastings goe with him, And from her iealous Armes pluck him perforce.
 * 1697 — William Congreve, The Mourning Bride, act iii, scene 1
 * Whom Chance, or Fate working by secret Causes, Has made perforce subservient to that End
 * 1813 — Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chapter 17
 * 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.
 * 1850 — Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, chapter 10
 * The heart, making itself guilty of such secrets, must perforce hold them, until the day when all hidden things shall be revealed.
 * 1896 — H. G. Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau, chapter 5
 * He stood in my way, so that I had perforce to tap his shoulder to come on deck.
 * 1922 — James Joyce, Ulysses, chapter 16
 * 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,
 * 1947 — Percy Alfred Scholes, The Oxford Companion to Music, page 777
 * French was, of course, the language of the early white inhabitants of several of the Southern States and became, perforce, that of the slaves there.
 * 1956 — Information Access Company, Road and Track, page 47
 * Graham Hill ran only one race, finished 3rd at Riverside. of him blew his engine on the 13th lap and perforce retired.
 * 1992 — Diana Gabaldon, Outlander, page 97
 * While I had succeeded in escaping from the bandits, I had perforce to abandon my horse and all property.
 * 2006 — Alejandro Portes, Rubén G. Rumbaut, Immigrant America: A Portrait, 3rd ed., page 239
 * Adult immigrants must perforce learn some English, and their children are likely to become English monolinguals.