Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. Thenceforth.
- adv. From that time or place onward.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- From that time or place onward.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. From that time onward; thenceforth.
Examples
“Those that by repentance die unto sin thenceforward live unto”
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
“He blessed one of the kine, to wit the Dun Cow of Ciaran, as she was called thenceforward, and she went with her calf after Ciaran thence to Cluain Iraird.”
“The adherents of the Princes trembled as they discovered with how formidable an enemy they should be called thenceforward to contend; while the majority of the nobles who were faithful to the royal cause, and above all those whose names she had so proudly quoted, uttered loud acclamations of delight and triumph.”
“Diaz returned to Lisbon in December, 1487, and gave an account of his voyage to the king, who ordered the cape of Storms to be called thenceforward cabo de Buena Esperanza, or the cape of Good Hope.”
“And other than the print of the octopus on the dictionary page from "thenceforward" to "thermal capacity.”
“As Freud declares in Totem and Taboo, “What had up to then been prevented by his actual existence was thenceforward prohibited by the sons themselves.””
“If a slave born in the United States be manumitted, or otherwise lawfully discharged from bondage, or if a black man be born within the United States and born free, he becomes thenceforward a citizen ...”
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“Any person who finds a thing lost is not bound to take charge of it, unless the person is otherwise required to do so by contract or law, but when the person does take charge of it he or she is thenceforward a depositary for the owner, with the rights and obligations of a depositary for hire.”
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“Any person who finds a thing lost is not bound to take charge of it ... but when the person does take charge of it he or she is thenceforward a depositary for theowner.”
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“Trethaway had the indiscretion, once or twice, to speak slightingly of him, but so fiercely was he defended by his admirers that the colonel developed the good taste to thenceforward keep his tongue between his teeth.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘thenceforward’.
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EN - archaic words
abide, abjure, abroad, adamant, afield, aforetime, aghast, anon, apace, argent, assuage, aught and 328 more...
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Notre Dame de Paris
From Notre Dame de Paris by good ole Victor Hugo. (Also called The Hunchback of Notre Dame.)
cuivres, diable, hawthorn, provost, epithalamium, affrighted, mendicants, vagrants, Styx, chimeras, coif, matagrabolise and 196 more...
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I, Claudius
Words taken from I, Claudius by Robert Graves.
evocation, aureus, sestertii, denarii, assegai, pilum, framea, sibyl, propitiatory, duenna, tyrannicide, maggoty and 136 more...
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edes's Words
table talk, tuneful, bestrewn, determinate fashion, unpretending, personage, duly impressed, shirring, caw, hatchet job, gummy, comely and 225 more...
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The Innocents Abroad
Words rounded up while reading The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain.
rakish, excursionist, bowelless, pilgrimizing, melodeon, woebegone, abaft, sextant, veriest, behindhand, stanchion, avast and 188 more...
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