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English
Etymology
From Middle English thennesforth, equivalent to thence + forth.
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thenceforth (not comparable)
- From that time on.
1774, First Continental Congress, The Articles of Association:...to the end, that all such foes to the rights of British-America may be publicly known, and universally contemned as the enemies of American liberty; and thenceforth we respectively will break off all dealings with him or her.
1851, Herman Melville, chapter 63, in Moby Dick:Furthermore: you must know that when the second iron is thrown overboard, it thenceforth becomes a dangling, sharp-edged terror, skittishly curvetting about both boat and whale, entangling the lines, or cutting them, and making a prodigious sensation in all directions.
1861, Charles Dickens, chapter VI, in Great Expectations:The fear of losing Joe’s confidence, and of thenceforth sitting in the chimney corner at night staring drearily at my forever lost companion and friend, tied up my tongue.
- 1927-1929 — Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography or The Story of my Experiments with Truth, "Nirbal Ke Bala Rama", translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai
- I decided to act thenceforth with great caution; not to leave the house, but somehow leave Portsmouth.
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