Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: thenceforth
IPA transcription: [ð,ɛnsf'ɔɹθ]
r meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: thereafter, thenceforth
    Meaning: from that time on; "thereafter he never called again"
Usage examples
  • When a person has once seen a spirit--or thinks he has--he thenceforth believes it.
  • The colony was wofully depleted; but the bad blood had been drawn off, and thenceforth all internal danger was at an end.
  • Marston's manner was changed towards her; he seemed shy, cowed, and uneasy in her presence, and thenceforth she saw less than ever of him.
  • The abandoned rake put on the outward sedateness of a philosopher; the scoffing sinner proclaimed that he had forsaken his evil ways, and would live thenceforth a model of virtue.
  • In fact, she had such confidence in her method of treating it, that she would not have Georgia and me vaccinated while the epidemic prevailed, insisting that if we should take the disease she could nurse us through it without disfigurement, and we would thenceforth be immune.
  • There I sat, and heard him: and most strangely have those words of his peroration planted themselves in my brain, when, rising to a passion of prophecy, he shouted: 'And as in the one case, transgression was followed by catastrophe swift and universal, so, in the other, I warn the entire race to look out thenceforth for nothing from God but a lowering sky, and thundery weather.'