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adverb

Hence adv.

From this place; away. "Or that we hence wend." "Arise, let us go hence." "I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles."

From this time; in the future; as, a week hence. "Half an hour hence."

From this reason; therefore; as an inference or deduction. "Hence, perhaps, it is, that Solomon calls the fear of the Lord the beginning of wisdom."

From this source or origin. "All other faces borrowed hence Their light and grace." "Whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence, even of your lusts?" Note: Hence is used, elliptically and imperatively, for go hence; depart hence; away; be gone. "Hence with your little ones." From hence, though a pleonasm, is fully authorized by the usage of good writers. "An ancient author prophesied from hence." "Expelled from hence into a world Of woe and sorrow."

verb

Hence v. t. To send away. (Obs.)

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"Hence" Quotes from Famous Books

... Thou hast done it, believing that sons of Pandu will not, from kindness, slay the son of Ganga. Know, however, O Dhritarashtra's son, that I will slay that Bhishma first in the sight of all the bowmen, relying upon whose strength thou indulgest in such boasts! O gambler's son, repairing (hence) unto the Bharatas and approaching Duryodhana the son of Dhritarashtra, say unto him that Arjuna hath said,—'So be it!' After this night will have passed away, the fierce encounter of arms will take place. Indeed, Bhishma of unfailing might ...

— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 • Kisari Mohan Ganguli

... sky is the "very me," that part of me that incessantly and insolently, yes, and a little deliberately, triumphs over that other part—a thing of nerves and tissues that suffers and cries out, and that must die to-morrow perhaps, or twenty years hence.' ...

— Figures of Several Centuries • Arthur Symons

... and coachees. Thackeray is {277} the equal of Swift as a satirist, of Dickens as a humorist, and of Scott as a novelist. The one element lacking in him—and which Scott had in a high degree—-is the poetic imagination. "I have no brains above my eyes," he said; "I describe what I see." Hence there is wanting in his creations that final charm which Shakspere's have. For what the eyes see is ...

— Brief History of English and American Literature • Henry A. Beers

... religion could not start from a definition of that kind. It would have to keep in view, not the philosophical notion of God, but the conceptions of the gods as they appear in the religion of antiquity. Hence I came to define atheism in Pagan antiquity as the point of view which denies the existence of the ancient gods. It is in this sense that the word will be ...

— Atheism in Pagan Antiquity • A. B. Drachmann

... through low tricks of sensationalism. Our own poetical attempt, entitled "Quinsnicket Park," contains 112 lines, and spoils three and a half otherwise excellent pages. It is probable that but few have had the fortitude to read it through, or even to begin it, hence we will pass over its defects in merciful silence. "What May I Own?" by A. W. Ashby, is an able sociological essay which displays considerable familiarity with the outward aspects of economic conditions. Mr. Ashby, condemning the present system practiced in the coal and iron industries, ...

— Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 • Howard Phillips Lovecraft

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