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
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."
From Time Magazine Archive
It symbolized for him all the crassness, the barbarity of a planet which he had long despised, which he thenceforward renounced.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was "discovered" by Harper & Bros., and thenceforward devoted his life to drawing and painting.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now and thenceforward it was not so much the matter for sketches of travel that he was collecting as it was the matter for the greater part of his best-known fiction.
From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by James, Henry
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