perforce English
Adverb
( -)
(archaic) By force.
* 1593 — , Act iii, scene 1 (First Folio)
- If ?he denie, Lord Hastings goe with him,
And from her iealous Armes pluck him perforce .
* 1610 , , 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.
Necessarily.
* 1813 — , 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..
* , Episode 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
* 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.
Verb
(obsolete) To force; to compel.
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derelict English
Adjective
( en adjective)
Abandoned, forsake; given up or forsaken by the natural owner or guardian; (of a ship) abandoned at sea, dilapidated, neglected; (of a spacecraft) abandoned in outer space.
- There was a derelict ship on the island.
* Jeremy Taylor
- The affections which these exposed or derelict children bear to their mothers, have no grounds of nature or assiduity but civility and opinion.
* {{quote-news
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, title=When and where did NASA's derelict satellite go down?
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Negligent in performing a duty.
Lost; adrift; hence, wanting; careless; neglectful; unfaithful.
* Burke
- They easily prevailed, so as to seize upon the vacant, unoccupied, and derelict minds of his friends; and instantly they turned the vessel wholly out of the course of his policy.
* John Buchanan
- A government which is either unable or unwilling to redress such wrongs is derelict to its highest duties.
Synonyms
* (abandoned) abandoned
Noun
( en noun)
Property abandoned by its former owner, especially a ship abandoned at sea.
* {{quote-book
, year=1907
, title=( The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses)
, author=Robert W. Service
, chapter=( The Cremation of Sam McGee)
, passage=Till I came to the marge of Lake Lebarge, and a derelict there lay; / It was jammed in the ice, but I saw in a trice it was called the "Alice May". / And I looked at it, and I thought a bit, and I looked at my frozen chum; / Then "Here", said I, with a sudden cry, "is my cre-ma-tor-eum."}}
(dated) An abandoned or forsaken person; an outcast.
* 1911 Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax” (Norton 2005, p.1364):
- A rather pathetic figure, the Lady Frances, a beautiful woman, still in fresh middle age, and yet, by a strange chance, the last derelict of what only twenty years ago was a goodly fleet.
A homeless and/or jobless person; a person who is (perceived as) negligent in their personal affairs and hygiene.
* 1988 , Jonathan D. Spence, The Question of Hu :
- As they hunt, the Archers and Duval find many derelicts and ne'er-do-wells in many parts of Paris.
* 2002 , in The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H. Lawrence'', ''The Boy in the Bush , edited by Paul Eggert, page 22:
- If they're lazy derelicts and ne'er-do-wells she'll eat 'em up. But she's waiting for real men — British to the bone —
* 2004 , Katherine V. W. Stone, From Widgets to Digits: Employment Regulation , page 280:
- We see the distinction at work when victims of natural disasters and terrorist attacks are treated more generously than derelicts and drug addicts.
See also
* flotsam
* jetsam
* lagan
* salvage
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