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/hˈɛns/
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[ US /ˈhɛns/ ]
[ US /ˈhɛns/ ]
ADVERB
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from this place
get thee hence! -
from this time
a year hence it will be forgotten -
(used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result
therefore X must be true
the eggs were fresh and hence satisfactory
it is late and thus we must go
the witness is biased and so cannot be trusted
we were young and thence optimistic
How To Use hence In A Sentence
- Iron is absorbed in the proximal small intestine, where celiac manifestations are most prominent; hence, iron malabsorption is common.
- One of the nastiest is the way in which male honour is seen as bound up with female behaviour so that any supposed compromise or scandal in what happens to women, even becoming a rape victim, justifies violence against them as well as against their abusers or seducers; hence the 'honour killings' of young girls that disfigure some societies even today. Temple Address: "Becoming Trustworthy: Respect and Self-Respect" Church House
- Then snatching up some of the flowers, which ornamented the table, he swore that Juba should henceforward be called Anacreon, and that he deserved to be crowned with roses by the hand of beauty. Tales and Novels — Volume 03
- We were told that the idea was to absorb light and hence reduce glare.
- Hence the salty relish of the prospect that lies ahead. Times, Sunday Times
- _ When a scirrhus affects any gland of no great extent or sensibility, it is, after a long period of time, liable to suppurate without inducing fever, like the indolent tumors of the conglobate or lymphatic glands above mentioned; whence collections of matter are often found after death both in men and other animals; as in the liver of swine, which have been fed with the grounds of fermented mixtures in the distilleries. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
- Hence it appears, that Cyphers put on the Right - hand of whole Numbers, do increafe the Value of thofe Numbers in a decuple (or ten-fold) Proportion: The Complete Measurer: Or, The Whole Art of Measuring. In Two Parts. The First Part Teaching ...
- The thanatological philosophies of spirit that Schelling here wishes were dead are in fact very much alivehence the reiterated forcefulness of his censure. Mourning Becomes Theory: Schelling and the Absent Body of Philosophy
- Hence, personal hygiene and cleaning our handswill bethe most effective ways of combating this disease.
- Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. This experience of heightened vitality and potency fills me with joy. I experience myself as overflowing, spending, alive, hence as joyous. Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness. Erich Fromm