Definizione monolingua

perforce

perforce (third-person singular simple present perforces, present participle perforcing, simple past and past participle perforced)

1. (obsolete) To force; to compel.

perforce (not comparable)

1. (archaic) By force.
   • 1593 — William Shakespeare, Richard III, Act iii, scene 1 (First Folio)

     If ?he denie, Lord Hastings goe with him,
     And from her iealous Armes pluck him perforce.

2. Necessarily.
   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Episode 16

     So, bevelling around by Mulletts 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.

Definizione dizionario perforce

Altri significati:

(archaic) By force.

by force

(obsolete) To force; to compel.

Necessarily.