请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 perforce
释义

Definition of perforce in English:

perforce

adverb pəˈfɔːspərˈfɔrs
formal
  • Used to express necessity or inevitability.

    amateurs, perforce, have to settle for less expensive solutions
    Example sentencesExamples
    • But just as W.B. Yeats had trouble separating the dancer from the dance, so too is it impossible to separate the more graceful moments from the ugly, at times horrifying, context in which they must perforce arise.
    • Any modern understanding of the history of the region must perforce rely on the oral traditions.
    • Motorists are becoming increasingly anarchical, but this could be simply a means to an end as anyone wishing to drive through Keighley these days must perforce adopt an aggressive attitude.
    • Lurid black and white must perforce give way to reputable gray.
    • Such a work of synthesis, he asserts, ‘must perforce construct its own rules of engagement.’
    Synonyms
    necessarily, of necessity, inevitably, unavoidably, by force of circumstances, needs must
    Latin nolens volens
    informal like it or not

Origin

Middle English: from Old French par force 'by force'.

Rhymes

coarse, corse, course, divorce, endorse (US indorse), enforce, force, gorse, hoarse, horse, morse, Norse, reinforce, sauce, source, torse
 
 

Definition of perforce in US English:

perforce

adverbpərˈfôrspərˈfɔrs
formal
  • Used to express necessity or inevitability.

    amateurs, perforce, have to settle for less expensive solutions
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Any modern understanding of the history of the region must perforce rely on the oral traditions.
    • Motorists are becoming increasingly anarchical, but this could be simply a means to an end as anyone wishing to drive through Keighley these days must perforce adopt an aggressive attitude.
    • Such a work of synthesis, he asserts, ‘must perforce construct its own rules of engagement.’
    • But just as W.B. Yeats had trouble separating the dancer from the dance, so too is it impossible to separate the more graceful moments from the ugly, at times horrifying, context in which they must perforce arise.
    • Lurid black and white must perforce give way to reputable gray.
    Synonyms
    necessarily, of necessity, inevitably, unavoidably, by force of circumstances, needs must

Origin

Middle English: from Old French par force ‘by force’.

 
 
随便看

 

英语词典包含464360条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/11/11 7:57:55