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From Middle English þennes, from þenne +‎ -es (“adverbial ending”), the former from þanan, þanona, from Proto-West Germanic *þananā. Cognate with Westphalian Low German diëne.

thence (not comparable)

  1. (formal) From there, from that place or from that time.
    I came thence.
    Cross fix at 6000 feet, thence descend to 3000 feet and fly direct to MAP (missed approach point).
    • 1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, Judges j:[3], folio xiij, recto, column 2:
      And from thence he went agaynſt yͤ inhabiters of Debir (but Debir was called Kiriath Sepher afoꝛetyme.)
    • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 2:
      Miranda: O the heauens, / What fowle play had we, that we came from thence? / Or bleſſed was't we did?
      Prospero: Both, both my Girle. / By fowle-play (as thou ſayſt) were we heau'd thence, / But bleſſedly holpe hither.
    • 1965, James Cameron, “On the Way”, in Here is Your Enemy‎[1], Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 16–17:
      My flight was going to Wu-han and Nan-ning and thence to Hanoi, which caused a certain interest; it is not every day that British passports go to North Vietnam. My immigration official was suitably inscrutable; he took the thing as no great drama (which it certainly was to me), rather did he appear to regard the trip as a quaint eccentricity.
    • 2005, Alpha Chiang, Kevin Wainwright, Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics, 4th edition, McGraw-Hill International, page 605:
      From this we can find the characteristic roots b 1 {\displaystyle b_{1}} {\displaystyle b_{1}} and b 2 {\displaystyle b_{2}} {\displaystyle b_{2}} and thence proceed to the remaining steps of the solution process.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:thence.
  2. (literary) Deriving from this fact or circumstance; therefore, therefrom.
    I had a really bad car accident, and thence came all my backpains.
  3. (archaic) From that time; thenceforth; thereafter.

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