Citations:perforce

English citations of perforce

Adverb: By force; of necessity

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• 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.