Needs 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 repulse. --Sir J. Davies.
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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]