hence
/ˈhɛns/ verb C2- To depart; to go away.
He/she/it hences · Past henced · Past participle henced · -ing form hencing
Verb forms
- Base form
- hence
- He/she/it
- hences
- Past
- henced
- Past participle
- henced
- -ing form
- hencing
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Marseilles is filled with half-pay officers, who are daily, under one frivolous pretext or other, getting up quarrels with the royalists; from hence arise continual and fatal duels among the higher classes of persons, and assassinations in the lower.”
The Horse chose his earliest years and gave them his own attributes: hence every man is in his youth impetuous, headstrong, and obstinate in maintaining his own opinion.
Hence it is that when she appears they look to her as knowing all things, while she no longer gives them advice, but in solitude laments their past folly.
Hence it is that men are quick to see the faults of others, and yet are often blind to their own failings.
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