Perforced vs Performed - What's the difference?
perforced | performed |
(perforce)
(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.
(perform)
To do something; to execute.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=
, title= To do something in front of an audience, often in order to entertain it.
* Shakespeare
As verbs the difference between perforced and performed
is that perforced is (perforce) while performed is (perform).perforced
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(head)perforce
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(-)- 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.
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* (English Citations of "perforce")Verb
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(en verb)Lee S. Langston, magazine=(American Scientist)
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- Perform a part thou hast not done before.