2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Thence \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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
thence
adv 1: from that place or from there "proceeded thence directly to
college"; "flew to Helsinki and thence to Moscow";
"roads that lead therefrom" [syn: {therefrom}]
2: 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"
[syn: {therefrom}, {thereof}]
3: (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" [syn: {therefore},
{hence}, {thus}]
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