thence
/ðɛns/ adverb C2- From there, from that place or from that time. · I came thence.· Cross fix at 6000 feet, thence descend to 3000 feet and fly direct to MAP (missed approach point).
- Deriving from this fact or circumstance; therefore, therefrom. · I had a really bad car accident, and thence came all my backpains.
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de Saint-Méran’s oldest friends, and chamberlain to the Comte d’Artois, “that the Holy Alliance purpose removing him from thence?”
Thence he could see the drawbridge go up, and he knew that his only escape was through the moat.
de Bonaparte; do not conceal anything, however serious,—let us see, the Island of Elba is a volcano, and we may expect to have issuing thence flaming and bristling war—bella, horrida bella.”
“And writes me thence.”
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