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THENCE

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 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

(used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result

Example:

the witness is biased and so cannot be trusted

Synonyms:

hence; so; thence; therefore; thus

Classified under:

Adverbs

Sense 2

Meaning:

From that place or from there

Example:

roads that lead therefrom

Synonyms:

thence; therefrom

Classified under:

Adverbs

Sense 3

Meaning:

From that circumstance or source

Example:

typhus fever results therefrom

Synonyms:

thence; therefrom; thereof

Classified under:

Adverbs

Credits

 Context examples: 

You totally disallow any similarity in the obligations; and may I not thence infer that your notions of the duties of the dancing state are not so strict as your partner might wish?

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

And thence we went to the Mall in St. James’s Park, and thence to Brookes’s, the great Whig club, and thence again to Watier’s, where the men of fashion used to gamble.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Thenceforward, he sat all day over the fire in the private room, gnawing his nails; there he dined, sitting alone with his fears, the waiter visibly quailing before his eye; and thence, when the night was fully come, he set forth in the corner of a closed cab, and was driven to and fro about the streets of the city.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Fortunately, Mr. Bhaer considered her the most beautiful woman living, and she found him more Jove-like than ever, though his hatbrim was quite limp with the little rills trickling thence upon his shoulders (for he held the umbrella all over Jo), and every finger of his gloves needed mending.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

This was against her; but on the other hand, he spent so much of his time at Uppercross, that in removing thence she might be considered rather as leaving him behind, than as going towards him; and, upon the whole, she believed she must, on this interesting question, be the gainer, almost as certainly as in her change of domestic society, in leaving poor Mary for Lady Russell.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

They ran through the vestibule into the breakfast-room; from thence to the library; their father was in neither; and they were on the point of seeking him up stairs with their mother, when they were met by the butler, who said: If you are looking for my master, ma'am, he is walking towards the little copse.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Yes, truly, replied the peasant, I sank deep, deep down, until at last I got to the bottom; I pushed the bottom out of the barrel, and crept out, and there were pretty meadows on which a number of lambs were feeding, and from thence I brought this flock away with me.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

This door was open; a light shone out of the room within: I heard thence a snarling, snatching sound, almost like a dog quarrelling.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The next day I sailed to another island, and thence to a third and fourth, sometimes using my sail, and sometimes my paddles.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

At least, and at last, I was off the sea, nor had I returned thence empty-handed.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)