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English Dictionary: needs	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
needs adv in such a manner as could not be otherwise; "it is necessarily so"; "we must needs by objective" Synonym(s): inevitably, necessarily, of necessity, 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.