thenceforward en · ADV
Pronunciation
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- /ˌðɛnsˈfɔ(ɹ)wə(ɹ)d/
Etymology
From thence + forward.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) From then on; from that time on.
Guestling, who adds an insatiable jealousy to his other domestic virtues, vetoed the new acquaintance and thenceforward the two met hurriedly and furtively in town.
1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC:But the whole of this first plan, according to which Trixie and Dot are human-shaped "nymphets," born, in some unaccountable way, of frog parents, whom Great-Heart had once rescued from mischievous boys, is dropped immediately, and the two nymphets are thenceforward simply two English little girls […]
1879, The Academy, volume 16, page 173:Combpyne is 4¼ miles from Axminster, and ¼ mile beyond the station the gradient changes, the line thenceforward falling all the way to Lyme Regis.
1960 June, R. C. Riley, “The coastal branches of South-East Devon: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 342:
Relateds
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Synonyms
thenceforwards (from that time on) · thereafter (from that time on) · thenceforth (from that time on)