HENCEFORWARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does henceforward mean? 

• HENCEFORWARD (adverb)
  The adverb HENCEFORWARD has 1 sense:

1. from this time forth; from now on

  Familiarity information: HENCEFORWARD used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HENCEFORWARD (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

From this time forth; from now on

Synonyms:

henceforth; henceforward

Context example:

henceforth she will be known as Mrs. Smith

 Context examples 

Henceforward, I knew what fate St. John feared for me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It is that we become as him; that we henceforward become foul things of the night like him—without heart or conscience, preying on the bodies and the souls of those we love best.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Henceforward I know nothing of the matter.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

When I heard the voices die away, and saw the quiet evening cloud grow dim, and all the colours in the valley fade, and the golden snow upon the mountain-tops become a remote part of the pale night sky, yet felt that the night was passing from my mind, and all its shadows clearing, there was no name for the love I bore her, dearer to me, henceforward, than ever until then.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

As they were surveying the last, the general, after slightly naming a few of the distinguished characters by whom they had at times been honoured, turned with a smiling countenance to Catherine, and ventured to hope that henceforward some of their earliest tenants might be our friends from Fullerton.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

She was not in a humour, however, to regard it as an affront, and affecting to take no notice of what passed, by instantly talking of something else, she internally resolved henceforward to catch every opportunity of eyeing the hair and of satisfying herself, beyond all doubt, that it was exactly the shade of her own.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Fasten it into your girdle, Janet, and keep it henceforward: I have no use for it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She should see them henceforward with the closest observance; and wretchedly as she had hitherto misunderstood even those she was watching, she did not know how to admit that she could be blinded here.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)