Perforce vs Performe - What's the difference?
perforce | performe |
(archaic) By force.
* 1593 — , Act iii, scene 1 (First Folio)
* 1610 , , act 5 scene 1
Necessarily.
* 1813 — , Pride and Prejudice , ch. 17
* , Episode 16
* 2006 — Alejandro Portes, Rubén G. Rumbaut, Immigrant America: A Portrait , 3rd ed., page 239
(obsolete) To force; to compel.
As verbs the difference between perforce and performe
is that perforce is to force; to compel while performe is obsolete spelling of lang=en.As an adverb perforce
is by force.perforce
English
Adverb
(-)- If ?he denie, Lord Hastings goe with him,
And from her iealous Armes pluck him perforce .
- 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.
- 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..
- 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
- Adult immigrants must perforce learn some English, and their children are likely to become English monolinguals.