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(adverb) from this time; "a year hence it will be forgotten" |
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(adverb) (archaic) from this place; "get thee hence!" |
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(adverb) (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" |
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Synonyms: thence, therefore, thus |
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