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thence

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11
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12
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6
Pronunciation
/ðɛns/

Definition of thence

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. (formal, not-comparable)From there, from that place or from that time.
    “I came thence.”
    “Cross fix at 6000 feet, thence descend to 3000 feet and fly direct to MAP (missed approach point).”
    “And from thence he went agaynſt yͤ inhabiters of Debir (but Debir was called Kiriath Sepher afoꝛetyme.)”
    “Miranda: O the heauens, / What fowle play had we, that we came from thence? / Or bleſſed was't we did? Prospero: Both, both my Girle. / By fowle-play (as thou ſayſt) were we heau'd thence, / But bleſſedly holpe hither.”
    “My flight was going to Wu-han and Nan-ning and thence to Hanoi, which caused a certain interest; it is not every day that British passports go to North Vietnam. My immigration official was suitably inscrutable; he took the thing as no great drama (which it certainly was to me), rather did he appear to regard the trip as a quaint eccentricity.”
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adv

  1. (formal, not-comparable)From there, from that place or from that time.
    “I came thence.”
    “Cross fix at 6000 feet, thence descend to 3000 feet and fly direct to MAP (missed approach point).”
    “And from thence he went agaynſt yͤ inhabiters of Debir (but Debir was called Kiriath Sepher afoꝛetyme.)”
    “Miranda: O the heauens, / What fowle play had we, that we came from thence? / Or bleſſed was't we did? Prospero: Both, both my Girle. / By fowle-play (as thou ſayſt) were we heau'd thence, / But bleſſedly holpe hither.”
    “My flight was going to Wu-han and Nan-ning and thence to Hanoi, which caused a certain interest; it is not every day that British passports go to North Vietnam. My immigration official was suitably inscrutable; he took the thing as no great drama (which it certainly was to me), rather did he appear to regard the trip as a quaint eccentricity.”
  2. (literary, not-comparable)Deriving from this fact or circumstance; therefore, therefrom.
    “I had a really bad car accident, and thence came all my backpains.”
  3. (archaic, not-comparable)From that time; thenceforth; thereafter.

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Etymology

From Middle English þennes, from þenne + -es (“adverbial ending”), the former from þanan, þanona, from Proto-West Germanic *þananā. Cognate with Westphalian Low German diëne.

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