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s | perforce |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As an adverb perforce is

(archaic) by force.

As a verb perforce is

(obsolete) to force; to compel.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    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.

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "perforce")

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To force; to compel.