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   Needs (?), adv. [Orig. gen. of need, used as an adverb.  Cf. -wards.] Of necessity; necessarily; indispensably; -- often with must, and equivalent to of need.
   
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   A man must needs love mauger his head. Chaucer.
   
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   And he must needs go through Samaria. John iv. 4.
   
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   He would needs know the cause of his repulse. Sir J. Davies.
   
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