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Webster 1913 Edition
Hence
Hence
(hĕns)
, adv.
1.
From this place; away.
“Or that we hence wend.” Chaucer.
Arise, let us go
hence
. John xiv. 31.
I will send thee far
hence
unto the Gentiles. Acts xxii. 21.
2.
From this time; in the future;
“Half an hour hence.” as, a week
. hence
Shak.
3.
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. Tillotson.
4.
From this source or origin.
All other faces borrowed
Their light and grace.
hence
Their light and grace.
Suckling.
Whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not
hence
, even of your lusts? James. iv. 1.
☞ 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. An ancient author prophesied
from hence
. Dryden.
Expelled
Of woe and sorrow.
from hence
into a worldOf woe and sorrow.
Milton.
Hence
,Verb.
T.
To send away.
[Obs.]
Sir P. Sidney.
Webster 1828 Edition
Hence
HENCE
,adv.
1.
From this place. Arise, let us go hence. John 14.
I will send thee far hence to the Gentiles. Acts.22.
2.
From this time; in the future; as a week hence; a year hence.3.
From this cause or reason,noting a consequence, inference or deduction from something just before stated. Hence perhaps it is, that Solomon calls the fear of the Lord, the beginning of wisdom.
It sometimes denotes an inference or consequence, resulting from something that follows.
Whence come wars and fightings among you?
Come they not hence, even from your lusts--James 4.
4.
From this source or original. All other faces borrowed hence--
Hence signifies from this, and from before hence is not strictly correct. But from hence is so well established by custom, that it may not be practicable to correct the use of the phrase.
Hence is used elliptically and imperatively, for go hence; depart hence; away; be gone.
Hence, with your little ones.
Hence, as a verb, to send off, as used by Sidney, is improper.
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Adverb
hence (not comparable)
- (archaic) from here, from this place, away
- I'm going hence, because you have insulted me.
- Get thee hence, Satan!
- c.1599-1601, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Act 4, Scene 1,
- O Gertrude, come away! / The sun no sooner shall the mountains touch, / But we will ship him hence:
- 1849, Arthur Hugh Clough, Easter Day (Naples, 1849),
- Ye men of Galilee! / Why stand ye looking up to heaven, where Him ye ne’er may see, / Neither ascending hence, nor returning hither again?
- (archaic, figuratively) from the living or from this world
- After a long battle, my poor daughter was taken hence.
- (archaic, of a length of time) in the future from now
- A year hence it will be forgotten.
- (conjunctive) as a result; therefore, for this reason
- I shall go to Japan and hence will not be here in time for the party.
- The purse is handmade and hence very expensive.
- 1910, Sun Tzu, Lionel Giles (translator), The Art of War, Section VI: Weak Points and Strong, 8,
- Hence that general is skillful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skillful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.
- 1910, [1513], Niccolò Machiavelli, Ninian Hill Thomson (translator), The Prince, Chapter VI,
- Hence it comes that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.
- 1731 May 27, Benjamin Franklin, Apology for Printers, published in The Pennsylvania Gazette,
- That hence arises the peculiar Unhappiness of that Business, which other Callings are no way liable to;
Synonyms
- (as a result; therefore, for this reason): consequently
Derived terms
Terms derived from whence
Related terms
Translations
from here
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as a result, therefore
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from this time, from now
Verb
hence (third-person singular simple present hences, present participle hencing, simple past and past participle henced)