thenceforth
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: thĕnsfôrth
ipa: /ˌðɛnsˈfɔːθ/
ipa: /ˌðɛnsˈfɔːɹθ/
Etymology: From Middle English thennesforth, equivalent to thence + forth.
Senses: examples: text: ...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.
ref: 1774, First Continental Congress, The Articles of Association:
text: 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.
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, chapter 63, in Moby Dick:
text: 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.
ref: 1861, Charles Dickens, chapter VI, in Great Expectations:
text: 1927-1929 — Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography or The Story of my Experiments with Truth, "Nirbal Ke Bala Rama", translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai
I decided to act thenceforth with great caution; not to leave the house, but somehow leave Portsmouth.
text: Here his hand trembled as he set his pen to the proclamation that declared slaves thenceforth and forever free.
ref: 1994 February 12, Bill Clinton, Presidential Radio Address:
glosses: From that time on.
Synonyms: sense: from that time on
word: thenceforward
sense: from that time on
word: thenceforwards
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1. Scottish2. from Middle English mid3. old dialectal form