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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.
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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]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

46 Moby Thesaurus words for "thence":
   accordingly, 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, from here in,
   from now on, from then on, from this point, hence, henceforth,
   henceforward, henceforwards, hereafter, hereat, hereinafter, off,
   on that account, on that ground, on this account, out, propter hoc,
   then, thenceforth, thenceforward, thenceforwards, thereafter,
   thereat, therefor, therefore, therefrom, thereof, thus, thusly,
   thuswise, whence, wherefore, wherefrom