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hence

  [hens]
Use Hence in a Sentence
–adverb
1. as an inference from this fact; for this reason; therefore: The eggs were very fresh and hence satisfactory.
2. from this time; from now: They will leave a month hence.
3. from this source or origin.
4. Archaic.
a. from this place; from here; away: The inn is but a quarter mile hence.
b. from this world or from the living: After a long, hard life they were taken hence.
c. henceforth; from this time on.
–interjection
5. Obsolete. depart (usually used imperatively).
Origin:
1225–75; ME hens, hennes, equiv. to henne (OE heonan) + -es -s 1
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hence   (hěns)   
adv.  

    1. For this reason; therefore: handmade and hence expensive.

    2. From this source: They grew up in the Sudan; hence their interest in Nubian art.

    3. From this place; away from here: Get you hence!

    4. From this life.

  2. From this time; from now: A year hence it will be forgotten.

    1. From this place; away from here: Get you hence!

    2. From this life.


[Middle English hennes, from here : henne (from Old English heonan; see ko- in Indo-European roots) + -es, adv. suff.; see -s3.]
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Word Origin & History

hence 
c.1275, hennes, from O.E. heonan "away, hence" + adverbial gen. -s, from W.Gmc. *khin- (cf. O.S. hinan, O.H.G. hinnan, Ger. hinnen); related to O.E. her "here." The modern spelling is phonetic, to retain the breathy -s-. Original sense is "away from here;" of time, from c.1380; meaning "from this (fact or circumstance)" first recorded 1586.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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