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Webster 1913 Edition

adv.

[Orig. gen. of

need

, used as an adverb. Cf.

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 repulse.

Sir J. Davies.

adv.

Necessarily; indispensably; generally used with must.