Meaning

(archaic) From here, from this place, away..

Definitions by Sense

1. (archaic) From here, from this place, away.
2. (archaic, figuratively) From the living or from this world.
3. (of a length of time) In the future from now.
4. (conjunctive) As a result; therefore, for this reason.
5. (obsolete) Go away! Begone!
6. (obsolete, transitive) To utter "hence!" to; to send away.
7. (dated, intransitive) To depart; to go away.

Example Sentences

I'm going hence, because you have insulted me.

Get thee hence, Satan!

O Gertrude, come away: / The sun no ſooner ſhall the Mountaines touch, / But we will ſhip him hence,

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?

`Now leave me,' she said, `and sleep if ye may. I must watch and think, for to-morrow night we go hence, and the time is long since I trod the path that we must follow.'

After a long battle, my poor daughter was taken hence.

A year hence it will be forgotten.

[…]And now farewell / Till half an hour hence.

Word Forms

• hences
• hencing
• henced

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