Timeline for Learning to end sentences with "hence". Examples?
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| Feb 15, 2019 at 17:54 | comment | added | TimR | And although I don't have my hand on one at the moment, I'm sure there are attestations detailing a past itinerary where phrases like "and we sailed hence on to X place", where "hence" refers to a location that is not the speaker's present location. The hence/thence distinction is not always a perfectly clear cut one. | |
| Feb 15, 2019 at 17:44 | comment | added | TimR | See this example: books.google.com/… Six miles over a tolerable good road, with one bad hill brought us to a small branch of good water, where we nooned. Seven miles hence over a bad road, with some bad hills, passing the Oregon Rapids, and we camped on the bottom: grass scarce; wood and water plenty. The meaning could be paraphrased as "(from there) further on ". | |
| Feb 15, 2019 at 16:14 | comment | added | Kate Bunting | @TRomano In what dictionary have you found hence defined as from there? | |
| Feb 15, 2019 at 15:04 | comment | added | TimR | In the sense of "away from that place" (but not hither) | |
| Feb 15, 2019 at 14:52 | comment | added | TimR | @Kate Bunting: hence can also mean "away (from there) " | |
| Feb 15, 2019 at 9:46 | comment | added | Kate Bunting | @TRomano Hence = from here. Thence = from there. Hither = to here. Thither = to there. | |
| Feb 15, 2019 at 9:45 | comment | added | Kate Bunting | @NigelJ 'Come they not hence?' means 'Don't they come from here?' (i.e. the quarrels come from you yourselves). | |
| Feb 14, 2019 at 11:03 | comment | added | TimR | I think we can understand it as "from there" rather than "(to) here". You will encounter "They came hence hither". | |
| Feb 14, 2019 at 10:50 | history | answered | Nigel J | CC BY-SA 4.0 |