PERFORCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does perforce mean? 

• PERFORCE (adverb)
  The adverb PERFORCE has 1 sense:

1. by necessity; by force of circumstance

  Familiarity information: PERFORCE used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERFORCE (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

By necessity; by force of circumstance

 Context examples 

He was soaked with sleep, and perforce he must now stay awake and endure the white glare of life.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But this cabin alone had I found occupied, and in this cabin, perforce, I took my shelter.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Bitter experiences these, which, perforce, he swallowed, calling upon all his wisdom to cope with them.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

It was soon drawn, perforce another way.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

They are more like children to him, even the hunters, and as children he treats them, descending perforce to their level and playing with them as a man plays with puppies.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

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.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The horses jumped about and reared, and looked helplessly round with eyes that rolled in a way painful to see; but the living ring of terror encompassed them on every side; and they had perforce to remain within it.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Dick, perforce, had to go through a few stiff formalities at first, after which he calmly accepted White Fang as an addition to the premises.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

You cannot answer Berkeley, even if you have annihilated Kant, and yet, perforce, you assume that Berkeley is wrong when you affirm that science proves the non-existence of God, or, as much to the point, the existence of matter.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)