was wotd|2007|January|29
English
Pronunciation
italbrac|RP IPA|/�ð�ns�f��θ/
italbrac|US IPA|/�ð�ns�f��rθ/
audio|en-us-thenceforth.ogg|Audio (US)
Adverb
en-adv|pos=thenceforth|-
- From that time on.
Quotations
1774 � w:First Continental Congress|First Continental Congress, s:The Articles of Association|The Articles of Association
:...to the end, that all such foes to the rights of British-America may be publicly known, and universally contemned as the enemies of American liberty; and thenceforth we respectively will break off all dealings with him or her.
1851 � w:Herman Melville|Herman Melville, s:Moby Dick|Moby Dick ch 63
:Furthermore: you must know that when the second iron is thrown overboard, it thenceforth becomes a dangling, sharp-edged terror, skittishly curvetting about both boat and whale, entangling the lines, or cutting them, and making a prodigious sensation in all directions.
1861 � w:Charles Dickens|Charles Dickens, s:Great Expectations|Great Expectations ch VI
:The fear of losing Joe�s confidence, and of thenceforth sitting in the chimney corner at night staring drearily at my forever lost companion and friend, tied up my tongue.
1927-1929 � w:Mahatma Gandhi|Mahatma Gandhi, s:An Autobiography or The Story of my Experiments with Truth|An Autobiography or The Story of my Experiments with Truth, "Nirbal Ke Bala Rama", translated 1940 by w:Mahadev Desai|Mahadev Desai
:I decided to act thenceforth with great caution; not to leave the house, but somehow leave Portsmouth.
1994 � w:Bill Clinton|Bill Clinton, s:Presidential Radio Address - 12 February 1994|Presidential Radio Address (12 Feb)
:Here his hand trembled as he set his pen to the proclamation that declared slaves thenceforth and forever free.
Synonyms
italbrac|from that time on: thenceforward, thenceforwards
Related terms
henceforth
thence
Translations
Latin: inde#Latin|inde, ex eo tempore
mid
Russian: � �е� по� (s t'e� po)
Category:Time
io:thenceforth
it:thenceforth
sd:thenceforth
te:thenceforth
vi:thenceforth
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