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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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