Thereafter vs Thenceforth - What's the difference?
thereafter | thenceforth |
After that, from then on.
* 1900 , L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23
From that time on.
* 1774 —
* 1851 — ch 63
* 1861 — ch VI
* 1927-1929' —
* 1994 — (12 Feb)
As adverbs the difference between thereafter and thenceforth
is that thereafter is after that, from then on while thenceforth is from that time on.thereafter
English
Adverb
(-)- He left; thereafter we never met again.
- "My third command to the Winged Monkeys," said Glinda, "shall be to carry you to your forest. Then, having used up the powers of the Golden Cap, I shall give it to the King of the Monkeys, that he and his band may thereafter be free for evermore."
See also
* English pronominal adverbsthenceforth
English
Adverb
- ...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.
- 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.
- 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.
- I decided to act thenceforth with great caution; not to leave the house, but somehow leave Portsmouth.
- Here his hand trembled as he set his pen to the proclamation that declared slaves thenceforth and forever free.
