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thence

Adverb

Meaning

From that place.

From that time; thenceforth; thereafter.

For that reason; therefore.

Not there; elsewhere; absent.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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All human knowledge thus begins with intuitions, proceeds thence to concepts, and ends with ideas. Immanuel Kant

The circle of knowledge commences close round a man and thence stretches out concentrically. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

I have done one braver thing Than all the Worthies did; And yet a braver thence doth spring, Which is to keep that hid. John Donne

When Scythrop grew up, he was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfully beaten into him, and from thence to the university, where it was carefully taken out of him. Thomas Love Peacock

Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance. Giambattista Vico

Adam got a hoe, and Eve got a spinning-wheel, and thence come all our nobles. Danish Proverb

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