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Needs
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: adverb (adv.)
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.