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adverb

Hence adv.

From this place; away. "Or that we hence wend." "Arise, let us go hence." "I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles."

From this time; in the future; as, a week hence. "Half an hour hence."

From this reason; therefore; as an inference or deduction. "Hence, perhaps, it is, that Solomon calls the fear of the Lord the beginning of wisdom."

From this source or origin. "All other faces borrowed hence Their light and grace." "Whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence, even of your lusts?" Note: Hence is used, elliptically and imperatively, for go hence; depart hence; away; be gone. "Hence with your little ones." From hence, though a pleonasm, is fully authorized by the usage of good writers. "An ancient author prophesied from hence." "Expelled from hence into a world Of woe and sorrow."

verb

Hence v. t. To send away. (Obs.)

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"Hence" Quotes from Famous Books

... was suffering at the hands of the barbarians and Odoacer, although it was not for a short time, but for ten years, that he treated the land outrageously; but now you do violence to us who have acquired it legitimately, though you have no business here. Do you therefore depart hence out of our way, keeping both that which is your own and whatever you ...

— Procopius - History of the Wars, Books V. and VI. • Procopius

... could offer but "a small and that an uncertain salary" should he be ordained five years hence; and that he ought to think of that, that there was nothing worldly in his wishing to secure a maintenance by-and-by for wife and child, and that I much doubted my power to provide it. But this did not at all shake either his father ...

— Life of John Coleridge Patteson • Charlotte M. Yonge

... had that very afternoon, while we were gone, wrought changes in the little white office; hence the fatal mistake. Bernard had gone in, taken up a bottle from the very place where the article wanted had stood for two years, poured its contents into the cup, carried it in, and no hand stayed him. He was too blinded by suffering to ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 62, December, 1862 • Various

... unpleasant sense-stimulus, a bad smell. Dead bodies quickly putrefy and smell badly; they are thus equated, subconsciously, with ordure and must be buried. All Fuzzies carry weapons. A Fuzzy's weapon is—still subconsciously—regarded as a part of the Fuzzy, hence it must also ...

— Little Fuzzy • Henry Beam Piper

... the storms of the sea, but the storm of desires to which the weak of faith are exposed. It is not the outward marvel or superstition that is to be strengthened, but the faith of human nature in itself and its higher power and destiny. Hence the actual inner tranquillity when, after the raging orchestral tumult, 'a great stillness' succeeds Christ's words, which is ingeniously introduced with the motive of the 'Seligkeit,' because such inner purity alone bestows upon ...

— The Standard Oratorios - Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers • George P. Upton

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