• (British) IPA: /pəˈfɔːs/
• (GA) IPA: /pɚˈfɔɹs/
• (America)

perforce (not comparable)

1. (archaic) By force.
   • 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.

   • 1610, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, act 5, scene 1:

     For you, most wicked sir, whom to call brother

     Would even infect my mouth, I do forgive

     Thy rankest fault; all of them; and require

     My dukedom of thee, which, perforce, I know

     Thou must restore.

2. Necessarily.
   • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, ch. 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..

   • 1882, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Inferno, canto 34:

     "Keep fast thy hold, for by such stairs as these,"

     The Master said, panting as one fatigued,

     "Must we perforce depart from so much evil."

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 16]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare & Co.; Sylvia Beach, OCLC 560090630 ↗; republished London: Published for the Egoist Press, London by John Rodker, Paris, October 1922, OCLC 2297483 ↗:

     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

   • 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.

• French: forcément
• Italian: forzatamente
• Russian: нево́лей
• Spanish: por fuerza, forzadamente, de juro

• French: nécessairement
• Russian: ^{(please verify)} по необходи́мости (po neobxodímosti) attention ru, во́лей-нево́лей

perforce (perforces, present participle perforcing; past and past participle perforced)

1. (obsolete) To force; to compel.