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ADVERB (3)

1. (used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result;
- Example: "therefore X must be true"
- Example: "the eggs were fresh and hence satisfactory"
- Example: "we were young and thence optimistic"
- Example: "it is late and thus we must go"
- Example: "the witness is biased and so cannot be trusted"
[syn: therefore, hence, thence, thus, so]

2. from this place;
- Example: "get thee hence!"

3. from this time;
- Example: "a year hence it will be forgotten"



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Hence \Hence\ (h[e^]ns), adv. [OE. hennes, hens (the s is prop.
   a genitive ending; cf. -wards), also hen, henne, hennen,
   heonnen, heonene, AS. heonan, heonon, heona, hine; akin to
   OHG. hinn[=a]n, G. hinnen, OHG. hina, G. hin; all from the
   root of E. he. See He.]
   1. From this place; away. "Or that we hence wend." --Chaucer.
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            Arise, let us go hence.               --John xiv.
                                                  31.
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            I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles. --Acts
                                                  xxii. 21.
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   2. From this time; in the future; as, a week hence. "Half an
      hour hence." --Shak.
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   3. From this reason; therefore; -- as an inference or
      deduction.
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            Hence, perhaps, it is, that Solomon calls the fear
            of the Lord the beginning of wisdom.  --Tillotson.
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   4. From this source or origin.
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            All other faces borrowed hence
            Their light and grace.                --Suckling.
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            Whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they
            not hence, even of your lusts?        --James. iv.
                                                  1.
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   Note: Hence is used, elliptically and imperatively, for go
         hence; depart hence; away; be gone. "Hence with your
         little ones." --Shak. -- From hence, though a pleonasm,
         is fully authorized by the usage of good writers.
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               An ancient author prophesied from hence.
                                                  --Dryden.
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               Expelled from hence into a world
               Of woe and sorrow.                 --Milton.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Hence \Hence\, v. t.
   To send away. [Obs.] --Sir P. Sidney.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

hence
    adv 1: (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"; "we were
           young and thence optimistic"; "it is late and thus we
           must go"; "the witness is biased and so cannot be
           trusted" [syn: therefore, hence, thence, thus,
           so]
    2: from this place; "get thee hence!"
    3: from this time; "a year hence it will be forgotten"