needs

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   of necessity; necessarily (used with must)

   He must needs obey, for there was no other course open to him.

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From Old English nedes, the genitive of nied ('need'), used adverbially to mean 'of necessity'; from Proto-Germanic *naudiz.

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