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needs |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Needs \Needs\, adv [Orig. gen. of need used as an adverb. Cf {-wards}.] Of necessity; necessarily; indispensably; -- often with must and equivalent to of need A man must needs love mauger his head. --Chaucer. And he must needs go through Samaria. --John iv 4. He would needs know the cause of his reulse. --Sir J. Davies. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: needs adv : in such a manner as could not be otherwise; "it is necessarily so"; "we must needs by objective" [syn: {inevitably}, {necessarily}, {of necessity}]
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