different between thenceforth vs thence

English

Etymology

From Middle English thennesforth, equivalent to thence +? forth.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ð?ns?f???/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?ð?ns?f????/

Adverb

thenceforth (not comparable)

1. From that time on.
   • 1774 — First Continental Congress, The Articles of Association

     ...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.

   • 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.

   • 1994 — Bill Clinton, Presidential Radio Address (12 Feb)

     Here his hand trembled as he set his pen to the proclamation that declared slaves thenceforth and forever free.

Synonyms

• (from that time on): thenceforward, thenceforwards

Related terms

• henceforth
• thence

Translations

English

Etymology

From Old English þanon + adverbial genitive ending -es, the former from a Proto-Germanic root *þan-. Cognate with Westphalian Low German diëne.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ð?ns/

• Rhymes: -?ns

Adverb

thence (not comparable)

1. (formal) From there, from that place or from that time.

   • Miranda: O the heauens, / What fowle play had we, that we came from thence? / Or ble??ed was't we did?

     Prospero: Both, both my Girle. / By fowle-play (as thou ?ay?t) were we heau'd thence, / But ble??edly holpe hither.

   • 2005, Alpha Chiang and Kevin Wainwright, Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics (4th ed.), McGraw-Hill International, p. 605

     From this we can find the characteristic roots ${\displaystyle b_{1}}$ and ${\displaystyle b_{2}}$ and thence proceed to the remaining steps of the solution process.

2. (literary) Deriving from this fact or circumstance; therefore, therefrom.
3. (archaic) From that time; thenceforth; thereafter

Antonyms

• thither

Derived terms

Related terms

• hence
• whence

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