From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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.
45.
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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.
20.
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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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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
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}]
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