different between whenceafter vs thenceafter

English

Etymology

whence +? after

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: hw?nsäf?t?r, hw?ns?f?t?r; IPA^(key): /??ns???ft?/, /??ns?æft?/

Adverb

whenceafter (not comparable)

1. (rare) After which; whereafter.
   • 1918–1925, Booth Tarkington [aut.] and Alan Seymour Downer [ed.], On Plays, Playwrights, and Playgoers (1959), page 16

     Its light came from thirty feet to the left of it, and the moon itself rose audibly until a stagehand juggled it, whenceafter it ceased to rise.

   • 1919, Holden Edward Sampson, Theou Sophia II: “Re-Generation” (2003 reprint), page 16

     In the case of each [Master] his Mission was revealed to him at a certain period of his life-career, whenceafter he set himself apart from the world…in order to fulfil his Mission, free from worldly ties and entanglements.

   • 1938, Norman St. Barbe Sladen, The Real le Queux, page 77

     The spy followed Le Queux again the next day in the streets of Bucharest and Le Queux complained to the police, whenceafter the spy was not seen again.

Related terms

• henceafter, thenceafter

English

Alternative forms

• thence after (obsolete)

Etymology

thence +? after

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dh?nsäf?t?r, dh?ns?f?t?r; IPA^(key): /ð?ns???ft?/, /ð?ns?æft?/

Adverb

thenceafter (not comparable)

1. (rare) After that time; thereafter.

Related terms

• henceafter, whenceafter

References

• “Thence-a·fter.” listed on page 271 of volume IX, part II (Su–Th), § ii (T) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles [1st ed., 1919]
  ??Thence-a·fter. rare.?After that time; thereafter.?[¶]?1593 Tell Troth’s N. Y. Gift (1876) 18 Thence after they must sit no more in the shoppes.?1864 Neale Seaton. Poems 187 Those blessed feet, thenceafter nailed Fast to the bitter cross!
• “thence-?after” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989]