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THEREFROM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does therefrom mean?
• THEREFROM (adverb)
The adverb THEREFROM has 2 senses:
1. from that circumstance or source
2. from that place or from there
Familiarity information: THEREFROM used as an adverb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
From that circumstance or source
Synonyms:
Context example:
typhus fever results therefrom
Sense 2
Meaning:
From that place or from there
Synonyms:
thence; therefrom
Context example:
roads that lead therefrom
Context examples
It was early in the days of his persecution that he played his first really big crafty game and got therefrom his first taste of revenge.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The lunatic is both cunning and malignant; she has never failed to take advantage of her guardian's temporary lapses; once to secrete the knife with which she stabbed her brother, and twice to possess herself of the key of her cell, and issue therefrom in the night-time.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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