thenceとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ðɛns/

• 韻: -ɛns

副詞

thence (not comparable)

1. (formal) From there, from that place or from that time.

   I came thence.

   Cross fix at 6000 feet, thence descend to 3000 feet and fly direct to MAP (missed approach point).

   • 1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, Judges j:[3], folio xiij, recto, column 2:

     And from thence he went agaynſt yͤ inhabiters of Debir (but Debir was called Kiriath Sepher afoꝛetyme.)

   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 2:

     Miranda: O the heauens, / What fowle play had we, that we came from thence? / Or bleſſed was't we did?
     Prospero: Both, both my Girle. / By fowle-play (as thou ſayſt) were we heau'd thence, / But bleſſedly holpe hither.

   • 1965, James Cameron, “On the Way”, in Here is Your Enemy‎, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 16–17:

     My flight was going to Wu-han and Nan-ning and thence to Hanoi, which caused a certain interest; it is not every day that British passports go to North Vietnam. My immigration official was suitably inscrutable; he took the thing as no great drama (which it certainly was to me), rather did he appear to regard the trip as a quaint eccentricity.

   • 2005, Alpha Chiang, Kevin Wainwright, Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics, 4th edition, McGraw-Hill International, page 605:

     From this we can find the characteristic roots ${\displaystyle b_{1}}$ and ${\displaystyle b_{2}}$ and thence proceed to the remaining steps of the solution process.

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2. (literary) Deriving from this fact or circumstance; therefore, therefrom.

   I had a really bad car accident, and thence came all my backpains.

3. (archaic) From that time; thenceforth; thereafter

反意語

• thither

派生語

関連する語

• hence
• whence

アナグラム

• techne