herefromadv.
Now rare.
1. From this place; hence. Also, from this state or condition.
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the world > space > direction > [adverb] > away from some thing or place > from this place
heneOE
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hethenwardc1175
hethenforthc1200
henwardc1225
hencec1300
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1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 33 The boundes [L. trajectus] heirfra till Irland is only xvi. myles.
a1679 J. Brown Life of Faith (1824) II. viii. 222 Shall we never be redeemed herefrom?
1839 J. Rogers Antipopopriestian xii. §6. 278 Power to deliver hereto, and to deliver herefrom.
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. IV 247 Over the mountain-passes that men see Herefrom, a town there is.
2. From this thing, fact, or circumstance; from this source.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [adverb] > from which source or origin
whennec888
thennec897
hereofc1200
whereof?c1225
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wherehenc1475
thereoutc1480
there-whynec1485
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thence1652
1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. To Rdr. sig. a6 The profite & commodity that issueth herefrom is great.
1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall ii. f. 104 Others..may (perhaps) take some light herefrom, to doe the like.
1763 Philos. Trans. 1762 (Royal Soc.) 52 472 Herefrom, possibly, the..proportional distances of the fixed stars may be essayed at.
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