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adverb

Hence adv.

From this place; away. "Or that we hence wend." "Arise, let us go hence." "I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles."

From this time; in the future; as, a week hence. "Half an hour hence."

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."

From this source or origin. "All other faces borrowed hence Their light and grace." "Whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence, even of your lusts?" Note: Hence is used, elliptically and imperatively, for go hence; depart hence; away; be gone. "Hence with your little ones." From hence, though a pleonasm, is fully authorized by the usage of good writers. "An ancient author prophesied from hence." "Expelled from hence into a world Of woe and sorrow."

verb

Hence v. t. To send away. (Obs.)

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"Hence" Quotes from Famous Books

... to elude his observation. He does not represent men as worse than they are; but he represents them less brave. No social stratum is probably quite so dull as he colours it. There is usually a streak of illusion or a flash of hope somewhere on the horizon. Hence a somewhat one-sided view of life, perfectly true as representing the grievance of the poet Cinna in the hands of the mob, but too severely monochrome for a serious indictment of a huge stratum of our common humanity. As in Thyrza, the sombreness ...

— The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories • George Gissing

... there had been some dispute when he had left; he had claimed payment for more days than he had worked. Aleck was a just man who paid honestly what he owed; he was also known to be "close-fisted." He would pay what he owed and not a nickel more,—hence the dispute. Johnny had gone away seeming satisfied that his own figures were wrong, but later on he had quarreled with Carl over wages and other things. Carl had a bad temper that sometimes got beyond his control, and he had ordered Johnny off the ranch. This was part of the long, ...

— Jean of the Lazy A • B. M. Bower

... respectively. Then I say X by not being Y, but in consequence of being the correlative opposite of Y, is will; and Y, by not being X, but the correlative and opposite of X, is nature,—'natura naturans', [Greek: nomos physikos]. Hence we may see the necessity of contemplating the idea now as identical with the reason, and now as one with the will, and now as both in one, in which last case I shall, for convenience sake, employ the term 'Nous', the ...

— Literary Remains, Vol. 2 • Coleridge

... do they exhibit any vulpine appearance whatever, but they go out of themselves (and leave themselves) like dead bodies; and save that they are convulsed, and roll about somewhat, they exhibit no sign or evidence of life. Hence the opinion has arisen that their spirits only are taken forth of their bodies, and put for a time into the phantasms of vulpine forms; and then, after doing the bidding of the devil in that way, are remitted back to their proper bodies, ...

— The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II • Various

... were, first, that he was the eldest son of the king, and secondly, that he was descended from Cyrus. This latter argument could not fail to have weight. Backed by the influence of Atossa, it prevailed over all other considerations; and hence Xerxes obtained ...

— The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 5. (of 7): Persia • George Rawlinson

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