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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Needs \Needs\, adverb [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 repulse. --Sir J. Davies.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
needs
adverb: 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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