Adverb

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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 .

Adverb

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(lb) Truly; in fact; actually.

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*:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed , a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed , did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.}}

*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)

, chapter=1 citation , passage=She was like a Beardsley Salome , he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry. His wooing had been brief but incisive.}}

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*:With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed , allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Welcome to the plastisphere , passage=[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed , contain bacteria,

In fact.

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