Meaning

2 senses
  1. (dated, intransitive)To depart; to go away.

  2. (obsolete, transitive)To utter "hence!" to; to send away.

Examples

23 sentences
  1. Hence, they compete in the same market.

    Відтак, вони конкурують на одному й тому ж ринку. — deniko

  2. Hence, we have to take care of ourselves.

    Відтак, ми маємо піклуватися самі про себе. — deniko

  3. There is no smoke, and hence no fire.

  4. What will become of the world thirty years hence?

    deWas wird aus der Welt in dreißig Jahren? — Dejo

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  5. It will be all the same a hundred years hence.

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Origin

A later Middle English spelling, retaining the voiceless -s, of hennes (henne + adverbial

A later Middle English spelling, retaining the voiceless -s, of hennes (henne + adverbial genitive ending -s), from Old English heonan (“away", "hence”), from a Proto-West Germanic *hin-, from Proto-Germanic *hiz, and Proto-Germanic *-anē.

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Forms

hences, hencing, henced, henced
Base formhence · to hence
3rd person singularhences
Present participlehencing
Past simplehenced
Past participlehenced

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyhence
he, she, ithences

Past simpleLesson

all personshenced

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave henced
he, she, ithas henced

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill hence

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
hence — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto