adv. [Orig. two words: THENCE and FORWARD adv.] = prec. Also with from († fro).

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1457.  Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1889), 294. Fro thens forward al thos that ben abyll to be jurys.

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1472–3.  Rolls of Parlt., VI. 30/2. To be from thensforward true Liegemen.

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1677.  Cary, Chronol., II. II. III. ii. 226. From thence-forward they might safely betake themselves to their Labours.

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1732.  Berkeley, Alciphr., IV. § 14. As an artist leaves a clock, to go thenceforward of itself for a certain period.

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1856.  Froude, Hist. Eng., II. x. 430. No monks, thenceforward, were to leave the precincts of the monastery.

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