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adverb

Thence adv.

From that place. "Bid him thence go." "When ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them." Note: It is not unusual, though pleonastic, to use from before thence. Cf. Hence, Whence. "Then I will send, and fetch thee from thence."

From that time; thenceforth; thereafter. "There shall be no more thence an infant of days."

For that reason; therefore. "Not to sit idle with so great a gift Useless, and thence ridiculous, about him."

Not there; elsewhere; absent. (Poetic)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Thence" Quotes from Famous Books

... up a hill, and to Fort William came! When in he popped and out from thence could ...

— Canada: the Empire of the North - Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom • Agnes C. Laut

... took off his cloak and wrapped it about her. "Climb up into a tree," said he, "and hide yourself among the branches, and I will go to the castle and bring you from thence robes and jewels and all things fitting for such a beautiful ...

— Tales of Folk and Fairies • Katharine Pyle

... as the way of the Spirit and broad as the breast of Death, is the Great White Road running I know not whence, up to those Gates that gleam like moonlight and are higher than the Alps. There beyond the Gates the radiant Presences move mysteriously. Thence at the appointed time the Voice cries and they are opened with a sound like to that of deepest thunder, or sometimes are burned away, while from the Glory that lies beyond flow the sweet-faced welcomers to greet those for whom they ...

— The Mahatma and the Hare • H. Rider Haggard

... she so far off, then?" returned Barbara quickly enough. "And lo! you! she can journey thence all the way to York or Chester when she would get her the new fashions,—over land, too!—yet cannot she take boat to Bideford, which were less travail by half. An' yonder jewel had been mine, Marian, I would not have left it lie in the case for ...

— Clare Avery - A Story of the Spanish Armada • Emily Sarah Holt

... envelope of the great "orb of day" was neither a liquid nor an elastic fluid; that it was in certain respects analogous to the clouds which wreathe our mountain-summits and fertilize our plains; that it floated in the solar atmosphere. Thence he came to the conclusion that the Sun has two atmospheres, endowed with motions quite independent of each other. An elastic fluid, now known as the photosphere, is in course of continual formation on the dark rugged ...

— The Story of the Herschels • Anonymous

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