Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb From that time forward; thereafter.
from The Century Dictionary.
- From that time forward.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb From that time; thereafter.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb From that
time on.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb from that time on
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Examples
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And his father, as soon as he found me turned into the mistress, and “his lady” (as he would have me called thenceforth, whether or no on my part), not another word would he tell me of the household sentiments, politics, or romances.
Erema Richard Doddridge 2004
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The collision took place at Chrysler's Farm, -- a name thenceforth of potent memory.
Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812
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When Antony deserted his Roman wife for Egypt's sensuous queen, he quickly became an enervated ass and his name thenceforth was Ichabod.
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His name thenceforth was in a multitude of mouths; yet much in his character, position, and motives always remains shadowy and uncertain.
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Its course thenceforth is mostly through a level country, and its current is generally placid, being usually from two to three miles an hour.
The Ohio 1861
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And his father, as soon as he found me turned into the mistress, and "his lady" (as he would have me called thenceforth, whether or no on my part), not another word would he tell me of the household sentiments, politics, or romances.
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It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.
Bill Plaschke…stolen ideas an embarassment to News Organization! « Julian Ayrs & Pop Culture 2008
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After the peace of 1881, it used to be publicly recognised that the English were entitled thenceforth to a first place in the nation's friendship, and that the retrocession put a term to all recriminations applying to previous dates.
Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (2nd ed.) The Conspiracy of the 19th Century Unmasked C. H. Thomas
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Darius recrossed the river after an interval of somewhat more than two months, victorious according to his own notions, and regarded himself as entitled thenceforth to enumerate among the subject races of his empire "the Scyths beyond the sea."
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It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.
lucidityprevails commented on the word thenceforth
From then onward.
January 12, 2007