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sithence en · ADP

Pronunciation

• /sɪˈðɛns/
• (US) audio
• /ˈsɪðəns/

Etymology

From sithen + -ence.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) Since.

Forms

sithence en · ADV

Pronunciation

• /sɪˈðɛns/
• (US) audio
• /ˈsɪðəns/

Etymology

From sithen + -ence.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable, obsolete) Thereupon; subsequently, afterwards.
   • Great threasure sithence we did finde 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
2. (not-comparable, obsolete) Since.

Forms

sithence en · CCONJ

Pronunciation

• /sɪˈðɛns/
• (US) audio
• /ˈsɪðəns/

Etymology

From sithen + -ence.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) From or since the time that.
2. (archaic) Seeing that, since.
   • I leve of therefore ſithens in a nett I ſeke to hold the wynde c. 1527–1542, Thomas Wyatt, “Who so list to hounte”, in Egerton MS 2711, page 7v:
   • Sithence it muſt continue ſo ſhort a time, and begunne ſo late[…], there was no time to be loſt. 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 93:

Forms

Synonyms

sith · sithen (from or since the time that) · given that (seeing that)