Definitions for perforce

perforce per·force

Spelling: [per-fawrs, -fohrs]
IPA: /pərˈfɔrs, -ˈfoʊrs/

Perforce is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 146 anagrams from letters in perforce (ceefoprr).

Definitions for perforce

adverb

  1. of necessity; necessarily; by force of circumstance:

Origin of perforce

1300-50; per + force; replacing Middle English par force Middle French

Examples for perforce

The furniture they had taken with them; the wall paper had perforce been left behind.

There we were, and there perforce we must remain till we reached our destination.

But his vanity and weakness of character had perforce to triumph!

It is part of my punishment, and you, perforce, must bear witness.

Kirkwood acceded, perforce; and bided his time with what tolerance he could muster.

We must, perforce, 'monsieur' them, and salute them a league off as if they were their masters.

That hope also went, perforce, into the deeply compromised political system that Obama would lead.

Fancy these things, and the wife submitting to them, perforce!

We perforce took our peeps at nature from behind the barriers.

When he plunged through the doorway, Charlie perforce went right with him.

Word Value for perforce
Scrable

15

Words with friends

17

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