sithence
English
WOTD – 31 December 2008
Alternative forms
- sithens
Etymology
From sithen + -s (adverbial suffix).
Pronunciation
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Adverb
sithence (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Thereupon; subsequently, afterwards.
- (obsolete) Since.
Conjunction
sithence
- (obsolete) From or since the time that.
- (archaic) Seeing that, since.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, […], printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, pp.186-7:
- Sithence it must continue so short a time, and begun so late […], there was no time to be lost.
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Preposition
sithence
- (obsolete) Since.
Anagrams
- Steichen, snitchee