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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Necessarily \Nec"es*sa*ri*ly\, adverb In a necessary manner; by necessity; unavoidably; indispensably.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
necessarily
adverb
1: in an essential manner; "such expenses are necessarily incurred" [syn: {needfully}] [ant: {unnecessarily}]
2: in such a manner as could not be otherwise; "it is necessarily so"; "we must needs by objective" [syn: {inevitably}, {of necessity}, {needs}]
3: as a highly likely consequence; "we are necessarily bound for federalism in Europe"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
40 Moby Thesaurus words for "necessarily": accordingly, and so, as a consequence, as a result, certainly, come what may, compulsorily, consequently, fatefully, finally, from necessity, inconsequence, indefeasibly, ineluctably, inescapably, inevasibly, inevitably, inexorably, inflexibly, irrevocably, it follows that, naturally, naturellement, need, needfully, needs, nolens volens, of course, of necessity, perforce, relentlessly, requisitely, surely, therefore, unavoidably, uncontrollably, unpreventably, unyieldingly, willy-nilly, without choice
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