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therehence, adv. Obs. exc. dial.
Forms: α. 4–5 þerhenne, (4 therhanne). β. 4 þer hannes, 6– there(-)hence, (6 therence (9 dial.), therehens, 7 therhence).
[f. there 17 + hen, henne adv., and hennes, hens, hence adv.]
1. From or out of that place; from there: = thence 1. Now dial.
αc1300Beket 1145 Therhanne he wende to Eystrie. a1400Arthur 591 Muche folke þerhenne he toke þo.
βc1400R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) App. AA. 2 He nolde þer hannes passi. 1548Udall Erasm. Par. Luke viii. 89 Therehens as..out of a chaire or pulpite he taught the multitude. 1600Hakluyt Voy. (1904) X. 101 The famous voyage of Sir Francis Drake into the South sea, and there⁓hence about the whole Globe of the earth, begun in 1577. 1724R. Welton Chr. Faith & Pract. 367 The waves toss the ships up to the very clouds, and the winds therehence drive them to the deep abyss. 1898T. Hardy Wessex Poems 46 Stone-deaf therence went many a man.
†2. From that source or origin; from that fact or circumstance: = thence 4. Obs.
1528Tindale Parable Wicked Mammon 16 Hamon, in the Ebrewe speche sygnyfyeth a multytude or abundaunce... And therhence commeth mahamon or mammon, abundaunce or plenteousnes of goodes or ryches. 1597J. King On Jonas (1618) 10 Therehence, they say, he was named the son of Amittai; that is, the sonne of truth. 1623W. C. Fatall Vesper 4 Those vnreuealed attributes, which doe flow therehence. 1718Swift To Sheridan 3, I have a great esteem for Plautus; And think your boys may gather there-hence More wit and humour than from Terence.
†3. Distant from that place: = thence 2. rare.
1611Coryat Crudities 10 A countrey village..fourteene miles therehence distant. Ibid. 68 A parish tenne miles therehence. |