thenceforth
Americanadverb
Etymology
Origin of thenceforth
1325–75; Middle English thennes forth (compare Old English thanonforth ). See thence, forth
Example Sentences
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Thenceforth, throughout the series, we have been permanently and deliciously unable to decide who, at any moment, is who.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 26, 2018
Thenceforth Sharp devoted all his energies to collecting lullabies, carols, love songs and work songs—in streets and kitchens, out in the fields and in the poorhouse.
From Economist • Aug. 17, 2017
Thenceforth, Leyster was magnanimously deemed both to have lived and to have left behind a convincing body of work.
From Washington Post
Thenceforth, until the war, he worked as a journalist in Geneva.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thenceforth he studied the high arts and enchantments, passing beyond arts of illusion to the works of real magery, learning what he must know to earn his wizard's staff.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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