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   Hence , adv. [OE. hennes, hens (the s is prop. a genitive ending; cf. -wards), also hen, henne, hennen, heonnen, heonene, AS. heonan, heonon, heona, hine; akin to OHG. hinnān, G. hinnen, OHG. hina, G. hin; all from the root of E. he. See He.]
   From this place; away. “Or that we hence wend.”  
   Chaucer.
   
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   Arise, let us go hence.
   John xiv. 31.
   
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   I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles.
   Acts xxii. 21.
   
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   From this time; in the future; as, a week hence. “Half an hour hence.”  
   Shak.
   
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   From this reason; therefore; -- as an inference or deduction.
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   Hence, perhaps, it is, that Solomon calls the fear of the Lord the beginning of wisdom.
   Tillotson.
   
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   From this source or origin.
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   All other faces borrowed hence
   Their light and grace.
   Suckling.
   
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   Whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence, even of your lusts?
   James. iv. 1.
   
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   ☞ Hence is used, elliptically and imperatively, for go hence; depart hence; away; be gone. “Hence with your little ones.” Shak. -- From hence, though a pleonasm, is fully authorized by the usage of good writers.
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   An ancient author prophesied from hence.
   Dryden.
   
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   Expelled from hence into a world
   Of woe and sorrow.
   Milton.
   
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   Hence , v. t. To send away. [Obs.]
   Sir P. Sidney.
   
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