Meaning

(formal) From there, from that place or from that time..

Definitions by Sense

1. (formal) From there, from that place or from that time.
2. (literary) Deriving from this fact or circumstance; therefore, therefrom.
3. (archaic) From that time; thenceforth; thereafter.

Example Sentences

I came thence.

Cross fix at 6000 feet, thence descend to 3000 feet and fly direct to MAP (missed approach point).

And from thence he went agaynſt yͤ inhabiters of Debir (but Debir was called Kiriath Sepher afoꝛetyme.)

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.

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.

From this we can find the characteristic roots b#95;1 and b#95;2 and thence proceed to the remaining steps of the solution process.

I had a really bad car accident, and thence came all my backpains.

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Use thence when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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