hence

Definition

  • adverb: for this reason
  • adverb: from this place
  • synonyms: accordingly, as a result, away

Examples

  • He was a newcomer and 'hence' [='consequently, therefore'] had no close friends here.

  • The company lost a great deal of money. 'Hence', the CEO was asked to resign.

  • He knew he could not win the election—'hence' his decision to withdraw.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) Thy letters have transported me beyond this ignorant present and I feel now the future in the instant. My dearest love, Duncan comes here tonight. And when goes hence? Tomorrow, as he purposes. O never shall sun that morrow see! Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be what thou art promised. (..)
    2015 Macbeth
  • (..) O worthiest cousin. More is thy due than more than all can pay. The service and the loyalty I owe in doing it pays itself. From hence to Inverness, and bind us further to you. I'll be myself the harbinger and make joyful the hearing of my wife with your approach, so humbly take my leave. (..)
    2015 Macbeth