Associations to the word «Perforce»

Wiktionary

PERFORCE, adverb. (archaic) By force.
PERFORCE, adverb. Necessarily.
PERFORCE, verb. (obsolete) To force; to compel.

Dictionary definition

PERFORCE, adverb. By necessity; by force of circumstance.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope