thenceforth

[ thens-fawrth, -fohrth, thens-fawrth, -fohrth ]

adverb

1. from that time or place onward.

Word History and Origins

Origin of thenceforth¹

1325–75; Middle English thennes forth (compare Old English thanonforth ). See thence, forth

Example Sentences

As Beard was recuperating at St. Vincent’s Hospital from a near-fatal tusking by a matriarchal elephant during a 1996 excursion in the Masai Mara, he grandly declared that Nejma would thenceforth be “my Jacqueline, the Governess,” referring to the controlling second spouse of Pablo Picasso.

From New York Times

Dionysius decided that the year of Christ’s birth should, thenceforth, be the year 1 anno Domini, or the first year of Our Lord.

From Literature

Thenceforth, Leyster was magnanimously deemed both to have lived and to have left behind a convincing body of work.

From Washington Post

The fear of losing Joe’s confidence, and of thenceforth sitting in the chimney corner at night staring drearily at my forever lost companion and friend, tied up my tongue.

From Literature

I revolved these circumstances in my mind and determined thenceforth to apply myself more particularly to those branches of natural philosophy which relate to physiology.

From Literature

Related Words

• so
• thus