Meaning of THENCE
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- [adv] (used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result; "therefore X must be true"; "the eggs were fresh and hence satisfactory"; "we were young and thence optimistic"; "it is late and thus we must go"; "the witness is biased and so cannot be trusted"
- [adv] from that place or from there; "proceeded thence directly to college"; "flew to Helsinki and thence to Moscow"; "roads that lead therefrom"
- [adv] from that circumstance or source; "atomic formulas and all compounds thence constructible"- W.V.Quine; "a natural conclusion follows thence";"public interest and a policy deriving therefrom"; "Typhus fever results therefrom"
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| | Definition: | | \Thence\, adv. [OE. thenne, thanne, and (with the
adverbal -s; see {-wards}) thennes, thannes (hence thens, now
written thence), AS. [eth]anon, [eth]anan, [eth]onan; akin to
OHG. dannana, dann[=a]n, dan[=a]n, and G. von dannen, E.
that, there. See {That}.]
1. From that place. ``Bid him thence go.'' --Chaucer.
When ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your
feet for a testimony against them. --Mark vi. 11.
Note: It is not unusual, though pleonastic, to use from
before thence. Cf. {Hence}, {Whence}.
Then I will send, and fetch thee from thence.
--Gen. xxvii.
45.
2. From that time; thenceforth; thereafter.
There shall be no more thence an infant of days.
--Isa. lxv.
20.
3. For that reason; therefore.
Not to sit idle with so great a gift Useless, and
thence ridiculous, about him. --Milton.
4. Not there; elsewhere; absent. [Poetic] --Shak.
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