Perforce

Definition: Perforce

Perforce

Adverb

1. By necessity; by force of circumstance.

Date "perforce" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Compulsion	Adverb: by force; Noun: by force of arms; on compulsion, perforce; vi et armis, under the lash; at the point of the sword, at the point of the bayonet; forcibly; by a strong arm.
Necessity	Adverb: necessarily; adVerb: of necessity, of course; ex necessitate rei; needs must; perforce; nolens volens; will he nil he, willy nilly, bon gre mal gre, willing or unwilling, coute que coute.
Unwillingness	Adverb: unwillingly; Adjective: grudgingly, with a heavy heart; with a bad, with an ill grace; against one's wishes, against one's will, against the grain, sore against one's wishes, sore against one's will, sore against one's grain; invita Minerva; a contre caeur; malgre soi; in spite of one's teeth, in spite of oneself; nolens volens; (necessity); perforce; under protest; no; not for the world, far be it from me.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Perforce

English words defined with "perforce": Of necessity ♦ Per-. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	The hellfire cookbook : recipes for fiery food for those who like it, and for those others who, because of the sin of gluttony, should become used to it here and now ere they perforce eat it hereafter when they will need a long spoon (reference) (more book examples)
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Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross.
Scarlet Letter	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	The heart, making itself guilty of such secrets, must perforce hold them until the day when all hidden things shall be revealed.
King Richard III	Shakespeare, William	I must perforce.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Perforce" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Perforce" is used about 72 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adverb (general)	100%	72	39,377

Expression using "perforce": of perforce. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "perforce"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		nga nevoja (of perforce), nga halli, me detyrim (constrainedly). (various references)

Arabic		‏رغما عنه, ‏بحكم الضرورة. (various references)

Bulgarian		необходимост (indispensability, instancy, necessary, necessity, need, requirement), по необходимост (indispensably, necessarily, needs, nolens volens, of perforce). (various references)

Czech		nutnì (badly, necessarily), nezbytnì (necessarily), chtì nechtì (willy nilly). (various references)

Farsi		ناگزیر (Hobson'schoice, Incumbent, Indispensable, Inevitable, Needful), اجبارا, بناچار, بزو. (various references)

Finnish		välttämättömästi (inevitably, necessarily). (various references)

French		nécessairement, forcément. (various references)

German		zwangsläufig (automatic, inescapable, inescapably, inevitable, inevitably, unavoidable), notgedrungen (unavoidably). (various references)

Greek		κατ' ανάγκην, κατ' ανάγκη (necessarily, of necessity), αναγκαστικά. (various references)

Hebrew		על כורחו (against one's will, reluctantly), בעל כרחו (against one's will, forcibly, unwillingly, willy nilly). (various references)

Hungarian		szükségképpen (necessarily, needs), okvetlenül (absolutely, definitely, without fail). (various references)

Indonesian		terpaksa. (various references)

Italian		necessariamente (necessarily, needfully, needs, of necessity). (various references)

Manx		er egin (compulsorily, forcibly). (various references)

Pig Latin		erforcepay

Portuguese		necessariamente (necessarily, needy), máquina de perfurar (perforating machine). (various references)

Romanian		vrând-nevrând (nolens volens, willy nilly), neapãrat (absolute, absolutely, certainly, naked, needs, open), în mod necesar (necessarily). (various references)

Russian		по необходимости (by necessity, by perforce, must need, of necessity, of perforce, out of necessity). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		prinudno (forcedly, willy nilly), silom (force: by force of). (various references)

Spanish		por fuerza, forzosamente (necessarily, needs). (various references)

Swedish		ovillkorligen (absolutely, needs), nödvändigt (useful). (various references)

Turkish		zorunlu olarak (coerciblely, enforcedly, necessarily), zorla (at the point of the bayonet, by force, by violence, constrainedly, forcibly, hard, hardly, ill, only just, under compulsion), ister istemez (necessarily, needs, nolens volens, willingly or unwillingly, willynilly). (various references)

Ukranian		волею-неволею (willy nilly), вимушено (constrainedly, under protest), вимушений (bound, constrained, induced, necessary, necessitous, reluctant, willy nilly), з потреби. (various references)

Vietnamese		tất yếu (necessarily, necessary), sự tất yếu, sự cần thiết (must, necessity, needfulness), cần thiết (material, must, necessary, needful, requisite). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Perforce" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: perfo, perfor, performce, performe, Repforce. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "perforce" (pronounced perfô"rs)
4	-f ô" r s	enforce, force, reinforce.
3	-ô" r s	bourse, coarse, corse, course, divorce, endorse, hoarse, horse, midcourse, Morse, remorse, source.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-e-f-o-p-r-r"
	-2 letters: forcer, prefer.
	-3 letters: coper, corer, creep, crepe, crore, force, freer, frere, frore, refer, repro, roper.
	-4 letters: cepe, cere, cero, cope, core, corf, crop, fere, fore, free, froe, peer, pore, pree, prof, reef, repo, rope.
	-5 letters: cee, cep, cop, cor, ere, err, fee, fer, foe, fop, for, fro, ope, orc, ore, pec, pee, per, pro.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-e-f-o-p-r-r"
	+3 letters: performance.
	+4 letters: performances.
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