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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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Hence

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

Hence\, v. t. To send away. [Obs.] --Sir P. Sidney.
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Language Translation for : hence
Spanish: por lo tanto, por consiguiente, por esa razón,
German: folglich,
Japanese: それゆえ
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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.
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