thence
/ðɛns/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.07 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I came thence."
- "Cross fix at 6000 feet, thence descend to 3000 feet and fly direct to MAP (missed approach point)."
- "And from thence he went agaynſt yͤ inhabiters of Debir (but Debir was called Kiriath Sepher afoꝛetyme.)"
- "Miranda: O the heauens, / What fowle play had we, that we came from thence? / Or bleſſed was't we did? Prospero: Both, both my Girle. / By fowle-play (as thou ſayſt) were we heau'd thence, / But bleſſedly holpe hither."
- "My flight was going to Wu-han and Nan-ning and thence to Hanoi, which caused a certain interest; it is not every day that British passports go to North Vietnam. My immigration official was suitably inscrutable; he took the thing as no great drama (which it certainly was to me), rather did he appear to regard the trip as a quaint eccentricity."
- "From this we can find the characteristic roots b#95;1 and b#95;2 and thence proceed to the remaining steps of the solution process."
Etymology
From Middle English þennes, from þenne + -es (“adverbial ending”), the former from þanan, þanona, from Proto-West Germanic *þananā. Cognate with Westphalian Low German diëne.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: þennes, *þananā
Usage
Derived Forms
Phrases
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