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Then

adverb
1.
Subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors).  Synonyms: and so, and then, so.  "Go left first, then right" , "First came lightning, then thunder" , "We watched the late movie and then went to bed" , "And so home and to bed"
2.
In that case or as a consequence.  "Keep it then if you want to" , "The case, then, is closed" , "You've made up your mind then?" , "Then you'll be rich"
3.
At that time.  "Prices were lower back then" , "Science as it was then taught"
adjective
1.
At a specific prior time.
noun
1.
That time; that moment.  "We were friends from then on"



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"Then" Quotes from Famous Books



... these thoughts: This or that sin thou hast committed: thou art infected with envy, with impatiency, and such other sins: therefore thou art entered into this holy order in vain, and all thy good works are unprofitable. But if then I had rightly understood these sentences of Paul: 'The flesh lusteth contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh; and these two are one against another, so that ye cannot do the things that ye would do,' ...
— The Varieties of Religious Experience • William James
... Abbas Hilmi Pasha, great-great-grandson of Mehemet Ali, born on the 14th of July 1874, succeeded his father, Tewfik Pasha, as khedive of Egypt on the 8th of January 1892. When a boy he visited England, and he had an English tutor for some time in Cairo. He then went to school in Lausanne, and from there passed on to the Theresianum in Vienna. In addition to Turkish, his mother tongue, he acquired fluency in Arabic, and a good conversational knowledge of English, French and German. He was still at college in Vienna ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
... Irishman then realized that his face was white and that his voice shook. The hand that gripped him ...
— The Centaur • Algernon Blackwood
... often had heard it? I watched the doors painfully, to see that not one was left open a hair's-breadth, until the time Miss Axtell went up to her own room. Talking rapidly, giving her no time to speak, I went on with her. Safely ignorant, I had her at last where ears of mortals could not intrude. Then I said,— ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 11, No. 63, January, 1863 - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various
... for the goading devil had just whispered to her, "You were a vestal virgin doubtless—oh, severely chaste!"... She said, "You believe then we have come up through 'a ...
— Fate Knocks at the Door - A Novel • Will Levington Comfort


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