- a variation of thenceforth.
thenceforward
Britishadverb
Example Sentences
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The history of Europe thenceforward would have surely been quite different had this treaty proved longer-lasting.
From BBC • Dec. 20, 2016
He was "discovered" by Harper & Bros., and thenceforward devoted his life to drawing and painting.
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It symbolized for him all the crassness, the barbarity of a planet which he had long despised, which he thenceforward renounced.
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Today this penalty has been modified to read that if the President so decides "the officers implicated . . . shall be thenceforward disqualified from holding their respective offices."
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Her widowed daughter-in-law and the four children, she took to her own home, and thenceforward they were the objects of her untiring solicitude.
From Noble Deeds of American Women With Biographical Sketches of Some of the More Prominent by Clement, J. (Jesse)
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