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ADVERB
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from that place or from there
proceeded thence directly to college
roads that lead therefrom
flew to Helsinki and thence to Moscow -
from that circumstance or source
a natural conclusion follows thence
public interest and a policy deriving therefrom
atomic formulas and all compounds thence constructible
typhus fever results therefrom -
(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 thence In A Sentence
- Thence in comparison to pricey couches, hammocks are more user-friendly.
- Upon these, and along the walls, which in most castles were topped by a parapet and a kind of embrasure called crennels, the defenders of the castle were stationed during a siege, and from thence discharged arrows, darts, stones, and every kind of annoyance they could procure, upon their enemies. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2)
- They having observed where the Chest stood, and wanting a necessary mooveable to houshold, yet loath to lay out money for buying it: complotted together this very night, to steale it thence, and carry it home to their house, as accordingly they did; finding it somewhat heavy, and therefore imagining, that matter of woorth was contained therein. The Decameron
- Here retired US diplomat Ellsworth Bunker drew up a plan to transfer the administrative authority for West Papua from the Netherlands to a neutral administrator, and thence to Indonesia.
- And now he called Ahithophel, and consulted with him what he ought to do: he persuaded him to go in unto his father's concubines; for he said that "by this action the people would believe that thy difference with thy father is irreconcilable, and will thence fight with great alacrity against thy father, for hitherto they are afraid of taking up open enmity against him, out of an expectation that you will be reconciled again. Antiquities of the Jews
- From alcohol they progress (oh so slowly) to opium, thence to heroin, allowing their language to get boozily baroque and even less penetrable.
- This so-called deductive method of Aristotle assumed as a starting-point some general of principle as a premise or hypothesis and thence proceeded, by logical reasoning, to deduce concrete applications or consequences. A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.
- Wherefore, upon all these accounts, as well as for all the reasons before mentioned, youth stands in need of good government to manage it in the reading of poetry, that being free from all prejudicate opinions, and rather instructed beforehand in conformity thereunto, it may with more calmness, friendliness, and familiarity pass from thence to the study of philosophy. Essays and Miscellanies
- And as they pass the Place of Unchangingness they return themselves to the true Piurivar form, and maintain it thenceforth. VALENTINE PONTIFEX
- Act, in a commercial view, they think introductive of monopolies, and tending to bring on them the extensive evils thence arising. Tea Leaves Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction, notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party)
