THENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thence mean? 

• THENCE (adverb)
  The adverb THENCE has 3 senses:

1. from that place or from there

2. from that circumstance or source

3. (used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result

  Familiarity information: THENCE used as an adverb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THENCE (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

From that place or from there

Synonyms:

thence; therefrom

Context example:

roads that lead therefrom

Sense 2

Meaning:

From that circumstance or source

Synonyms:

thence; therefrom; thereof

Context example:

typhus fever results therefrom

Sense 3

Meaning:

(used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result

Synonyms:

hence; so; thence; therefore; thus

Context example:

the witness is biased and so cannot be trusted

 Context examples 

I returned to the window and fetched it thence.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

From thence we proceeded to Oxford.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I have business there; from thence to town in a day or two.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Thence he drove to Scotland Yard, but, instead of entering, he sat in his cab with his brows drawn down, lost in profound thought.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I removed from the Old Jewry to Fetter Lane, and from thence to Wapping, hoping to get business among the sailors; but it would not turn to account.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Less time on the column then translates to narrower peaks in the resulting chromatogram and thence to better selectivity and sensitivity.

(High Performance Liquid Chromatography, NCI Thesaurus)

Thence, bending to our left, we began to ascend the slope towards the plateau.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

We go to France, and from thence I trust to Spain, in humble search of a field in which we may win advancement and perchance some small share of glory.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Thence he passed to the huge and ferocious bird, the phororachus, and to the great elk which still roams upon this upland.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She is the Czarina Catherine, and she sail from Doolittle's Wharf for Varna, and thence on to other parts and up the Danube.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)