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Hence   /hɛns/   Listen
Hence

adverb
1.
(used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result.  Synonyms: so, thence, therefore, thus.  "The eggs were fresh and hence satisfactory" , "We were young and thence optimistic" , "It is late and thus we must go" , "The witness is biased and so cannot be trusted"
2.
From this place.
3.
From this time.






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"Hence" Quotes from Famous Books



... was suffering at the hands of the barbarians and Odoacer, although it was not for a short time, but for ten years, that he treated the land outrageously; but now you do violence to us who have acquired it legitimately, though you have no business here. Do you therefore depart hence out of our way, keeping both that which is your own and whatever you ...
— Procopius - History of the Wars, Books V. and VI. • Procopius

... could offer but "a small and that an uncertain salary" should he be ordained five years hence; and that he ought to think of that, that there was nothing worldly in his wishing to secure a maintenance by-and-by for wife and child, and that I much doubted my power to provide it. But this did not at all shake either his father ...
— Life of John Coleridge Patteson • Charlotte M. Yonge

... had that very afternoon, while we were gone, wrought changes in the little white office; hence the fatal mistake. Bernard had gone in, taken up a bottle from the very place where the article wanted had stood for two years, poured its contents into the cup, carried it in, and no hand stayed him. He was too blinded by suffering to ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 62, December, 1862 • Various

... unpleasant sense-stimulus, a bad smell. Dead bodies quickly putrefy and smell badly; they are thus equated, subconsciously, with ordure and must be buried. All Fuzzies carry weapons. A Fuzzy's weapon is—still subconsciously—regarded as a part of the Fuzzy, hence it must also ...
— Little Fuzzy • Henry Beam Piper

... the storms of the sea, but the storm of desires to which the weak of faith are exposed. It is not the outward marvel or superstition that is to be strengthened, but the faith of human nature in itself and its higher power and destiny. Hence the actual inner tranquillity when, after the raging orchestral tumult, 'a great stillness' succeeds Christ's words, which is ingeniously introduced with the motive of the 'Seligkeit,' because such inner purity alone bestows upon ...
— The Standard Oratorios - Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers • George P. Upton


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