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Princeton's WordNet

  1. thence, therefromadverb

    from that place or from there

    "proceeded thence directly to college"; "flew to Helsinki and thence to Moscow"; "roads that lead therefrom"

  2. thence, therefrom, thereofadverb

    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"

  3. therefore, hence, thence, thus, soadverb

    (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"

Wiktionary

  1. thenceadverb

    From there, from that place or from that time. (I came thence.)

    Commonly used in property descriptions by land surveyors, or aviators relating to IFR established flying procedures, e.g. Cross fix at 6000 feet, thence descend to 3000 feet and fly direct to MAP (missed approach point).

  2. thenceadverb

    Deriving from this or as a result of this.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Thencenoun

    Etymology: contracted, according to John Minsheu, from therehence.

    Fast by the oracle of God; I thence
    Invoke thy aid. John Milton.

    Surat he took, and thence preventing fame,
    By quick and painful marches thither came. Dryden.

    There shall be no more thence an infant of days. Isa. lxv.

    Not to sit idle with so great a gift
    Useless, and thence ridiculous about him. John Milton, Agonist.

    From thence; from him, whose daughter
    His tears proclaim’d his parting with her; thence
    We have cross’d. William Shakespeare.

    There plant eyes, all must from thence
    Purge and disperse. John Milton.

ChatGPT

  1. thence

    "Thence" is an adverb originating from older forms of English. It is used to indicate the point of origin or starting place, or to mean 'from that place' or 'as a result'. In modern language, it's often substituted with words like "therefore" or "from there".

Webster Dictionary

  1. Thenceadverb

    from that place

  2. Thenceadverb

    from that time; thenceforth; thereafter

  3. Thenceadverb

    for that reason; therefore

  4. Thenceadverb

    not there; elsewhere; absent

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Thence

    thens, adv. from that time or place: for that reason.—advs. Thence′forth, from that time forth or forward; Thencefor′ward, from that time forward or onward. [M. E. thenne-s, thenne (cf. Then), with the gen. ending -s—A.S. ðanan. Cf. Hence and Whence.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of thence in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of thence in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of thence in a Sentence

  1. William Shakespeare:

    When holy and devout religious men Are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence So sweet is zealous contemplation.

  2. John Keats:

    The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted thence proceeds mawkishness.

  3. Lucius Annaeus Seneca:

    An action will not be right unless the will be right for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right for from thence comes the will.

  4. Epictetus:

    Practise yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things and thence proceed to greater.

  5. Artie Gunderson:

    The reactors continue to bleed radiation into the ground water and thence into the Pacific Ocean, when Tepco finally stops the groundwater, that will be the end of the beginning.

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