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Pronunciation
- thĕnsfôrth (Received-Pronunciation)
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- /ˌðɛnsˈfɔːθ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˌðɛnsˈfɔːɹθ/ (US)
Etymology
From Middle English thennesforth, equivalent to thence + forth.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) From that time on.
The fear of losing Joe’s confidence, and of thenceforth sitting in the chimney corner at night staring drearily at my forever lost companion and friend, tied up my tongue.
1861, Charles Dickens, chapter VI, in Great Expectations:1927-1929 — Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography or The Story of my Experiments with Truth, "Nirbal Ke Bala Rama", translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai I decided to act thenceforth with great caution; not to leave the house, but somehow leave Portsmouth.
Here his hand trembled as he set his pen to the proclamation that declared slaves thenceforth and forever free.
1994 February 12, Bill Clinton, Presidential Radio Address:...to the end, that all such foes to the rights of British-America may be publicly known, and universally contemned as the enemies of American liberty; and thenceforth we respectively will break off all dealings with him or her.
1774, First Continental Congress, The Articles of Association:Furthermore: you must know that when the second iron is thrown overboard, it thenceforth becomes a dangling, sharp-edged terror, skittishly curvetting about both boat and whale, entangling the lines, or cutting them, and making a prodigious sensation in all directions.
1851, Herman Melville, chapter 63, in Moby Dick:
Relateds
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Synonyms
thenceforwards (from that time on) · thenceforward (from that time on)
Translations (23)
mr तेव्हापासून (from that time on) · cy o'r amser hwnnw (from that time on) · hu attól fogva (from that time on) · sv alltifrån den tiden (from that time on) · la inde (from that time on) · io depose (from that time on) · sv sedan dess (from that time on) · ru с тех по́р (from that time on) · bg оттогава (from that time on) · nn frå då av (from that time on) · fr dès lors (from that time on) · gd on uair sin a-mach (from that time on) · nn frå da av (from that time on) · io ja lore (from that time on) · eo ekde tiam (from that time on) · nb fra da av (from that time on) · io de lore (from that time on) · pl od tego czasu (from that time on) · sv från och med då (from that time on) · gd o sin a-mach (from that time on) · hu azt követően (from that time on) · gl desí (from that time on) · la ex eo tempore (from that time on)