Midst vs Hence - What's the difference?
midst | hence |
(often, literary) A place in the middle of something; may be used of a literal or metaphorical location .
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* 2002', Nathan W. Schlueter, ''One Dream Or Two?: Justice in America and in the Thought of Martin Luther King, Jr.'',
(archaic) from here, from this place, away
* c.1599-1601 , , Act 4, Scene 1,
* 1849 , ,
(archaic, figuratively) from the living or from this world
(archaic, of a length of time) in the future from now
(conjunctive) as a result; therefore, for this reason
* 1910 , , Section VI: Weak Points and Strong, 8,
* 1910 , [1513], , Chapter VI,
* 1731 May 27, ,
(temporal location) from this time, from now
(obsolete) To send away.
As a noun midst
is a place in the middle of something; may be used of a literal or metaphorical location.As a preposition midst
is among, in the middle of; amid.As an adverb hence is
from here, from this place, away.As a verb hence is
to send away.midst
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Alternative forms
* midest (obsolete) * middis (obsolete) * middst (obsolete) * middest (obsolete) * myddis (obsolete) * mydst (obsolete) * mydest (obsolete) * myddst (obsolete) * myddest (obsolete)Noun
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- At dawn, in the midst of a mist that is both literal and the unformed shifting of thought, he encounters a young fox pup playfully shaking a bone.
page 89], quoting '''1963, , ''[[w:I Have a Dream, I Have a Dream] , speech,
- As he said in "I Have a Dream," the Negro "lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity."
Quotations
* (English Citations of "midst")Synonyms
* amid * amidstDerived terms
* in the midst * in one's midstAnagrams
*hence
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Adverb
(-)- I'm going hence , because you have insulted me.
- Get thee hence , Satan!
- O Gertrude, come away! / The sun no sooner shall the mountains touch, / But we will ship him hence :
- 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?
- ''After a long battle, my poor daughter was taken hence .
- ''A year hence it will be forgotten.
- ''I shall go to Japan and hence will not be here in time for the party.
- ''The purse is handmade and hence very expensive.
- 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.
- Hence it comes that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.
- That hence arises the peculiar Unhappiness of that Business, which other Callings are no way liable to;
- ''The plane will leave two months hence .
Synonyms
* consequentlyDerived terms
* henceforth * henceforwardVerb
(henc)- (Sir Philip Sidney)
