English

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.

   • 1851 — Herman Melville, Moby Dick ch 63

     Furthermore: you must know that when the second iron is thrown overboard, it thenceforth becomes a dangling, sharp-edged terror, skittishly curvetting about both boat and whale, entangling the lines, or cutting them, and making a prodigious sensation in all directions.

   • 1861 — Charles Dickens, Great Expectations ch VI

     The fear of losing Joe’s confidence, and of thenceforth sitting in the chimney corner at night staring drearily at my forever lost companion and friend, tied up my tongue.

   • 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

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