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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
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Obsolete. depart (usually used imperatively).
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Example Sentences
- They did not use their radios and hence were undetected.
- Following the impact, both balls have velocity and hence momentum.
- It has no internal grain boundaries, and hence it looks transparent.
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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
EXPANDor circumstance)" first recorded 1586.
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