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adv. [ OE. hennes, hens (the s is prop. a genitive ending; cf. -wards), also hen, henne, hennen, heonnen, heonene, AS. heonan, heonon, heona, hine; akin to OHG. hinnān, G. hinnen, OHG. hina, G. hin; all from the root of E. he. See He. ] 1. From this place; away. “Or that we hence wend.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Arise, let us go hence. John xiv. 31. [ 1913 Webster ]

I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles. Acts xxii. 21. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. From this time; in the future; as, a week hence. “Half an hour hence.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. From this reason; therefore; -- as an inference or deduction. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hence, perhaps, it is, that Solomon calls the fear of the Lord the beginning of wisdom. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. From this source or origin. [ 1913 Webster ]

All other faces borrowed hence
Their light and grace. Suckling. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence, even of your lusts? James. iv. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Hence is used, elliptically and imperatively, for go hence; depart hence; away; be gone. “Hence with your little ones.” Shak. -- From hence, though a pleonasm, is fully authorized by the usage of good writers. [ 1913 Webster ]

An ancient author prophesied from hence. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Expelled from hence into a world
Of woe and sorrow. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To send away. [ Obs. ] Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. From this time forward; henceforward. [ 1913 Webster ]

I never from thy side henceforth to stray. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. From this time forward; from now into the indefinite future; henceforth. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

adv. From hence. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } adv. & conj. Since. See Sith, and Sithen. [ Obs. ] Piers Plowman. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ OE. thenne, thanne, and (with the adverbal -s; see -wards) thennes, thannes (hence thens, now written thence), AS. ðanon, ðanan, ðonan; akin to OHG. dannana, dannān, danān, and G. von dannen, E. that, there. See That. ] 1. From that place. “Bid him thence go.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

When ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Mark vi. 11. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ It is not unusual, though pleonastic, to use from before thence. Cf. Hence, Whence. [ 1913 Webster ]

Then I will send, and fetch thee from thence. Gen. xxvii. 45. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. From that time; thenceforth; thereafter. [ 1913 Webster ]

There shall be no more thence an infant of days. Isa. lxv. 20. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. For that reason; therefore. [ 1913 Webster ]

Not to sit idle with so great a gift
Useless, and thence ridiculous, about him. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Not there; elsewhere; absent. [ Poetic ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. From that time; thereafter. [ 1913 Webster ]

If the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing. Matt. v. 13. [ 1913 Webster ]

This word is sometimes preceded by from, -- a redundancy sanctioned by custom. Chaucer. John. xix. 12. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. From that time onward; thenceforth. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. From that place. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ OE. whennes, whens (with adverbial s, properly a genitive ending; -- see -wards), also whenne, whanene, AS. hwanan, hwanon, hwonan, hwanone; akin to D. when. See When, and cf. Hence, Thence. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. From what place; hence, from what or which source, origin, antecedent, premise, or the like; how; -- used interrogatively. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whence hath this man this wisdom? Matt. xiii. 54. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whence and what art thou? Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. From what or which place, source, material, cause, etc.; the place, source, etc., from which; -- used relatively. [ 1913 Webster ]

Grateful to acknowledge whence his good
Descends. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ All the words of this class, whence, where, whither, whereabouts, etc., are occasionally used as pronouns by a harsh construction. [ 1913 Webster ] O, how unlike the place from whence they fell? Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ From whence, though a pleonasm, is fully authorized by the use of good writers. [ 1913 Webster ] From whence come wars and fightings among you? James iv. 1. [ 1913 Webster ] Of whence, also a pleonasm, has become obsolete. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. & conj. Whencesoever. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]