THENCEFORTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thenceforth mean? 

• THENCEFORTH (adverb)
  The adverb THENCEFORTH has 1 sense:

1. from that time on

  Familiarity information: THENCEFORTH used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THENCEFORTH (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

From that time on

Synonyms:

thenceforth; thereafter

Context example:

thereafter he never called again

 Context examples 

I revolved these circumstances in my mind and determined thenceforth to apply myself more particularly to those branches of natural philosophy which relate to physiology.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The cabin epitomized the new world in which they must thenceforth live and move. The old cabin was gone forever.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

To begin with, at the midday dinner, Wolf Larsen informed the hunters that they were to eat thenceforth in the steerage.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Hyde was thenceforth impossible; whether I would or not, I was now confined to the better part of my existence; and O, how I rejoiced to think of it! with what willing humility I embraced anew the restrictions of natural life! with what sincere renunciation I locked the door by which I had so often gone and come, and ground the key under my heel!

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

But now he had seen that world, possible and real, with a flower of a woman called Ruth in the midmost centre of it; and thenceforth he must know bitter tastes, and longings sharp as pain, and hopelessness that tantalized because it fed on hope.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Evil thenceforth became my good.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)