Whenceforth vs Thenceforth - What's the difference?
whenceforth | thenceforth |
As adverbs the difference between whenceforth and thenceforth is that whenceforth is (formal) from which place, time, or point forth; forth from which; onward from which while thenceforth is from that time on.
whenceforth English
Adverb
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(formal) From which place, time, or point forth; forth from which; onward from which.
- With great reluctance, he was introduced to pomegranates, whenceforth he refused any other fruit.
(formal, interrogative) Forth from what place, time, or point; onward from what place, time, or point.
- Whenceforth ought we to maintain radio-silence?
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thenceforth English
Adverb
From that time on.
* 1774 —
- ...to the end, that all such foes to the rights of British-America may be publicly known, and universally contemned as the enemies of American liberty; and thenceforth we respectively will break off all dealings with him or her.
* 1851 — ch 63
- Furthermore: you must know that when the second iron is thrown overboard, it thenceforth becomes a dangling, sharp-edged terror, skittishly curvetting about both boat and whale, entangling the lines, or cutting them, and making a prodigious sensation in all directions.
* 1861 — ch VI
- The fear of losing Joe’s confidence, and of thenceforth sitting in the chimney corner at night staring drearily at my forever lost companion and friend, tied up my tongue.
* 1927-1929' —
- I decided to act thenceforth with great caution; not to leave the house, but somehow leave Portsmouth.
* 1994 — (12 Feb)
- Here his hand trembled as he set his pen to the proclamation that declared slaves thenceforth and forever free.
Synonyms
* (from that time on): thenceforward, thenceforwards
Related terms
* henceforth
* thence
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