Needs
Pronunciation : Needs
Part of Speech : adv.
Etymology : [Orig. gen. of need, used as an adverb. Cf. - wards.]
Definition : Defn: 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.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913