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Hence (hĕns), 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&ā;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.
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Arise, let us go hence. John xiv. 31.
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I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles. Acts xxii. 21.
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2. From this time; in the future; as, a week hence.Half an hour hence.” Shak.
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3. From this reason; therefore; -- as an inference or deduction.
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Hence, perhaps, it is, that Solomon calls the fear of the Lord the beginning of wisdom. Tillotson.
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4. From this source or origin.
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All other faces borrowed hence
Their light and grace.
Suckling.
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Whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence, even of your lusts? James. iv. 1.
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&hand_; 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.
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An ancient author prophesied from hence. Dryden.
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Expelled from hence into a world
Of woe and sorrow.
Milton.
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Hence (?), v. t. To send away. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.
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