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Wordnet 3.0

ADVERB (3)

1. from that place or from there;
- Example: "proceeded thence directly to college"
- Example: "flew to Helsinki and thence to Moscow"
- Example: "roads that lead therefrom"
[syn: thence, therefrom]

2. from that circumstance or source;
- Example: "atomic formulas and all compounds thence constructible"- W.V.Quine
- Example: "a natural conclusion follows thence"
- Example: "public interest and a policy deriving therefrom"
- Example: "typhus fever results therefrom"
[syn: thence, therefrom, thereof]

3. (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]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Thence \Thence\, adv. [OE. thenne, thanne, and (with the
   adverbal -s; see -wards) thennes, thannes (hence thens, now
   written thence), AS. [eth]anon, [eth]anan, [eth]onan; akin to
   OHG. dannana, dann[=a]n, dan[=a]n, and G. von dannen, E.
   that, there. See That.]
   1. From that place. "Bid him thence go." --Chaucer.
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            When ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your
            feet for a testimony against them.    --Mark vi. 11.
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   Note: It is not unusual, though pleonastic, to use from
         before thence. Cf. Hence, Whence.
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               Then I will send, and fetch thee from thence.
                                                  --Gen. xxvii.
                                                  45.
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   2. From that time; thenceforth; thereafter.
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            There shall be no more thence an infant of days.
                                                  --Isa. lxv.
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   3. For that reason; therefore.
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            Not to sit idle with so great a gift
            Useless, and thence ridiculous, about him. --Milton.
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   4. Not there; elsewhere; absent. [Poetic] --Shak.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

thence
    adv 1: from that place or from there; "proceeded thence directly
           to college"; "flew to Helsinki and thence to Moscow";
           "roads that lead therefrom" [syn: thence, therefrom]
    2: from that circumstance or source; "atomic formulas and all
       compounds thence constructible"- W.V.Quine; "a natural
       conclusion follows thence"; "public interest and a policy
       deriving therefrom"; "typhus fever results therefrom" [syn:
       thence, therefrom, thereof]
    3: (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]