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(archaic) from here, from this place, away

I'm going hence , because you have insulted me.

Get thee hence , Satan!

* c.1599-1601 , , Act 4, Scene 1,

O Gertrude, come away! / The sun no sooner shall the mountains touch, / But we will ship him hence :

* 1849 , ,

Ye men of Galilee! / Why stand ye looking up to heaven, where Him ye ne’er may see, / Neither ascending hence , nor returning hither again?

(archaic, figuratively) from the living or from this world

''After a long battle, my poor daughter was taken hence .

(archaic, of a length of time) in the future from now

''A year hence it will be forgotten.

(conjunctive) as a result; therefore, for this reason

''I shall go to Japan and hence will not be here in time for the party.

''The purse is handmade and hence very expensive.

* 1910 , , Section VI: Weak Points and Strong, 8,

Hence that general is skillful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skillful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.

* 1910 , [1513], , Chapter VI,

Hence it comes that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.

* 1731 May 27, ,

That hence arises the peculiar Unhappiness of that Business, which other Callings are no way liable to;

(temporal location) from this time, from now

''The plane will leave two months hence .

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*:Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;.

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(label) To the same degree or extent; so, as.

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*:IN suche maner they kepte launcelot four and twenty dayes and also many nyghtes that euer he laye stylle as a dede man / and at the xxv daye byfelle hym after myddaye that he opened his eyen