perforce
Unavoidably, by circumstance
Perforce means by necessity or inevitably—something that must happen given the circumstances.
The word is formal and somewhat archaic: Being outnumbered, they perforce retreated.
It appears most often in legal, literary, or deliberately elevated contexts where *necessarily* would serve the same purpose.
Sure to happen
- unavoidablyWithout possibility of prevention
- inescapablyWithout possibility of avoidance
- necessarilyAs an unavoidable consequence
- compulsorilyBy force of rule
obligatorily · willy-nilly · like it or not · no choice · needs must · bindingly · mandatorily · requisitely
Quality of being unavoidable
- destinyPredetermined course of events
- predestinationDivinely predetermined fate
- ineluctablyCannot be avoided
- inexorablyWithout possibility of stopping
fated · predetermined · foreordained · decreed · providentially · unalterably · irrevocably · immutably
inevitably
Sure to happen
- unavoidablyWithout possibility of prevention
- inescapablyWithout possibility of avoidance
- necessarilyAs an unavoidable consequence
compulsorily · obligatorily · willy-nilly · like it or not · no choice · needs must · bindingly · mandatorily · requisitely · indispensably
inevitability
Quality of being unavoidable
- destinyPredetermined course of events
- predestinationDivinely predetermined fate
- ineluctablyCannot be avoided
inexorably · fated · predetermined · foreordained · decreed · providentially · unalterably · irrevocably · immutably · certitude
forsooth
Archaic emphatic affirmation
wherefore · thus · hence · thereby · thereof · heretofore · howbeit · withal · erstwhile · betwixt
perforceoptionally
As a choice, not requirement
voluntarily · by choice · unnecessarily · freely · willingly
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