hence
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9.9
- adverb
- /hɛns/
- Archaic
:
de aquí
- "' ... before I go hence, and be no more.'
- go hence
Examples
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Spare me, that I may recover strength before I go hence...
Fiction book (1999) -
A well man may be, an hour hence, a corpse.
Academic text (2014) -
Was that my father that went hence so fast?
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His estate is but four miles hence.
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I'll have him hence tonight.
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Upon this charge it is the sentence of this court... that you be taken hence to an... Appointed place.
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I am commanded to take you hence from this place to the Tower.
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I will send for all my kindred, all my friends to fetch him hence home to his father's house.
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I go hence unencumbered of the remembrance of injury received... and having discharged the duty of making the only reparation in my power... for any injury offered.
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His estate is but four miles hence, leading to a lovely view of the mountains.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To remove something so you no longer have it, for example by giving or throwing it
22
8.8
At a great distance
2
9.2
From that place to another place
Idioms
Surface Forms
Etymology
Hence originally meant 'away from here' and comes from the old English heonan, which is why older phrases like 'go hence' mean 'leave this place'.