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Meaning of thence

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  thence
      adv 1: from that place or from there; "proceeded thence directly
             to college"; "flew to Helsinki and thence to Moscow";
             "roads that lead therefrom" [syn: {thence}, {therefrom}]
      2: from that circumstance or source; "atomic formulas and all
         compounds thence constructible"- W.V.Quine; "a natural
         conclusion follows thence"; "public interest and a policy
         deriving therefrom"; "typhus fever results therefrom" [syn:
         {thence}, {therefrom}, {thereof}]
      3: (used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or
         reason or as a result; "therefore X must be true"; "the eggs
         were fresh and hence satisfactory"; "we were young and thence
         optimistic"; "it is late and thus we must go"; "the witness
         is biased and so cannot be trusted" [syn: {therefore},
         {hence}, {thence}, {thus}, {so}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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