hence
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Is hence a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adv (English)
1. (archaic) From here, from this place, away.Examples: "I'm going hence, because you have insulted me."; "Get thee hence, Satan!"; "O Gertrude, come away: / The sun no ſooner ſhall the Mountaines touch, / But we will ſhip him hence,"Synonyms: herefromarchaicnot-comparable
2. (archaic, figuratively) From the living or from this world.Examples: "After a long battle, my poor daughter was taken hence."archaicfigurativelynot-comparable
3. (of a length of time) In the future from now.Examples: "A year hence it will be forgotten."; "[…]And now farewell / Till half an hour hence."; "There may be an occasion to do so two years hence."not-comparable
4. (conjunctive) As a result; therefore, for this reason.Examples: "I shall go to Japan and hence will not be here in time for the party."; "The purse is handmade and hence very expensive."; "Hence that general is skillful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skillful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack."Synonyms: consequentlyconjunctivenot-comparable
intj (English)
1. (obsolete) Go away! Begone!Examples: "Zuc[cone]. Hence auant I will marie a woman with no wombe, a creature with two noſes, a wench with no haire rather then remarie thee, […]"; "Mira[nda]. Beſeech you Father. Proſ[pero]. Hence: hang not on my garments."obsolete
verb (English)
1. (obsolete, transitive) To utter "hence!" to; to send away.obsoletetransitive
2. (dated, intransitive) To depart; to go away.datedintransitive
name (English)
1. (very rare) A male given name.rare
Definition source: Wiktionary