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thence en · ADV

Pronunciation

Etymology

From Middle English þennes, from þenne + -es (“adverbial ending”), the former from þanan, þanona, from Proto-West Germanic *þananā. Cognate with Westphalian Low German diëne.

Meanings

  1. (formal, not-comparable) From there, from that place or from that time.
    • And from thence he went agaynſt yͤ inhabiters of Debir (but Debir was called Kiriath Sepher afoꝛetyme.) 1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, Judges j:[3], folio xiij, recto, column 2:
    • My flight was going to Wu-han and Nan-ning and thence to Hanoi, which caused a certain interest; it is not every day that British passports go to North Vietnam. My immigration official was suitably inscrutable; he took the thing as no great drama (which it certainly was to me), rather did he appear to regard the trip as a quaint eccentricity. 1965, James Cameron, “On the Way”, in Here is Your Enemy, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 16–17:
    • From this we can find the characteristic roots b#95;1 and b#95;2 and thence proceed to the remaining steps of the solution process. 2005, Alpha Chiang, Kevin Wainwright, Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics, 4th edition, McGraw-Hill International, page 605:
    • I came thence.
    • Miranda: O the heauens, / What fowle play had we, that we came from thence? / Or bleſſed was't we did? Prospero: Both, both my Girle. / By fowle-play (as thou ſayſt) were we heau'd thence, / But bleſſedly holpe hither. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 2:
    • Cross fix at 6000 feet, thence descend to 3000 feet and fly direct to MAP (missed approach point).
  2. (literary, not-comparable) Deriving from this fact or circumstance; therefore, therefrom.
    • I had a really bad car accident, and thence came all my backpains.
  3. (archaic, not-comparable) From that time; thenceforth; thereafter.

Antonyms

thither

Deriveds

thencefrom · thenceforwards · thence after · thenceforward · thenceforth · thenceafter

Relateds

whence · hence

Translations (50)

bg следователно (from there) · ro de acolo (from there) · el εκείθεν (from there) · sv därifrån (from there) · nn derfrå (from there) · pl stamtąd (from there) · fr dès lors (from there) · la inde (from there) · de von dannen (from there) · grc ἐκεῖθεν (from there) · nb derfra (from there) · io depose (from there) · ar ثَمَّ (from there) · la illinc (from there) · fr de là (from there) · da deraf følger (from there) · uk зві́дти (from there) · sv sedan (from there) · is þaðan (from there) · de daher (from there) · ar مِن هُنَاكَ (from there) · da derfra (from there) · gl en (from there) · pt daí (from there) · ru отту́да (from there) · fi sieltä (from there) · hu onnan (from there) · da deden (from there) · hi यहाँ से (from there) · es de/desde ahí/allí/allá/acullá/allende (from there) · fi tuolta (from there) · nv kodóó (from there) · cs odtud (from there) · az oradan (from there) · nl vandaar (from there) · nb derifra (from there) · la illim (from there) · nn derifrå (from there) · hy անտի (from there) · la abinde (from there) · gl ende (from there) · ang þanan (from there) · nl daarvandaan (from there) · sv dädan - dialectally shortened to dän (from there) · de dorther (from there) · hi वहाँ से (from there) · got 𐌸𐌰𐌸𐍂𐍉 (from there) · az ordan (from there) · ko 거기에서 (from there) · pt desde aí (from there)