Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Needs"
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) 1.7 (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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