Definitions for: Hence

[adv] (used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result; "therefore X must be true"; "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"
[adv] from this time; "a year hence it will be forgotten"
[adv] (archaic) from this place; "get thee hence!"

Webster (1913) Definition: Hence, adv. [OE. hennes, hens (the s is prop. a genitive
ending; cf. -wards), also hen, henne, hennen, heonnen,
heonene, AS. heonan, heonon, heona, hine; akin to OHG.
hinn[=a]n, G. hinnen, OHG. hina, G. hin; all from the root of
E. he. See He.]
1. From this place; away. ``Or that we hence wend.''
--Chaucer.

Arise, let us go hence. --John xiv.
31.

I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles. --Acts
xxii. 21.

2. From this time; in the future; as, a week hence. ``Half an
hour hence.'' --Shak.

3. From this reason; as an inference or deduction.

Hence, perhaps, it is, that Solomon calls the fear
of the Lord the beginning of wisdom. --Tillotson.

4. From this source or origin.

All other faces borrowed hence Their light and
grace. --Suckling.

Whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they
not hence, even of your lusts? --James. iv.
1.

Note: Hence is used, elliptically and imperatively, for go
hence; depart hence; away; be gone. ``Hence with your
little ones.'' --Shak. -- From hence, though a
pleonasm, is fully authorized by the usage of good
writers.

An ancient author prophesied from hence. --Dryden.

Expelled from hence into a world Of woe and sorrow.
--Milton.

Hence, v. t.
To send away. [Obs.] --Sir P. Sidney.

Synonyms: thence, therefore, thus

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