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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hence \Hence\ (h[e^]ns), adverb [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.
Arise, let us go hence. --John xiv. 31.
I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles. --Acts xxii. 21.
2. From this time; in the future; as, a week hence. ''Half an hour hence.'' --Shak.
3. From this reason; therefore; -- as an inference or deduction.
Hence, perhaps, it is, that Solomon calls the fear of the Lord the beginning of wisdom. --Tillotson.
4. From this source or origin.
All other faces borrowed hence Their light and grace. --Suckling.
Whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence, even of your lusts? --James. iv. 1.
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.
An ancient author prophesied from hence. --Dryden.
Expelled from hence into a world Of woe and sorrow. --Milton.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hence \Hence\, verb (used with an object) To send away. [Obs.] --Sir P. Sidney.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
hence
adverb
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}, {thence}, {thus}]
2: from this place; "get thee hence!"
3: from this time; "a year hence it will be forgotten"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
37 Moby Thesaurus words for "hence": accordingly, as a result, away, because of that, because of this, consequently, ergo, for that, for that cause, for that reason, for this cause, for this reason, for which reason, forth, hereat, in the future, off, on that account, on that ground, on this account, out, propter hoc, so, then, thence, thereat, therefor, therefore, therefrom, thereof, thereupon, thus, thusly, thuswise, whence, wherefore, wherefrom
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