thenceforth
English
WOTD – 29 January 2007
Etymology
From Middle English thennesforth, equivalent to thence + forth.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌðɛnsˈfɔːθ/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌðɛnsˈfɔːɹθ/
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Adverb
thenceforth (not comparable)
- From that time on.
- 1774 — First Continental Congress, The Articles of Association
- ...to the end, that all such foes to the rights of British-America may be publicly known, and universally contemned as the enemies of American liberty; and thenceforth we respectively will break off all dealings with him or her.
- 1851, Herman Melville, chapter 63, in Moby Dick:
- Furthermore: you must know that when the second iron is thrown overboard, it thenceforth becomes a dangling, sharp-edged terror, skittishly curvetting about both boat and whale, entangling the lines, or cutting them, and making a prodigious sensation in all directions.
- 1861, Charles Dickens, chapter VI, in Great Expectations:
- The fear of losing Joe’s confidence, and of thenceforth sitting in the chimney corner at night staring drearily at my forever lost companion and friend, tied up my tongue.
- 1927-1929 — Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography or The Story of my Experiments with Truth, "Nirbal Ke Bala Rama", translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai
- I decided to act thenceforth with great caution; not to leave the house, but somehow leave Portsmouth.
- 1994 — Bill Clinton, Presidential Radio Address (12 Feb)
- Here his hand trembled as he set his pen to the proclamation that declared slaves thenceforth and forever free.
- 1774 — First Continental Congress, The Articles of Association
Synonyms
- (from that time on): thenceforward, thenceforwards
Related terms
- henceforth
- thence
Translations
from that time on
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