thenceafter
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- thence after (obsolete)
Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dhĕnsäfʹtər, dhĕnsăfʹtər; IPA(key): /ðɛnsˈɑːftə/, /ðɛnsˈæftə/
Adverb
[edit]thenceafter (not comparable)
- (rare) After that time; thereafter.
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “Thence-a·fter.” listed on page 271 of volume IX, part II (Su–Th), § ii (T) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles [1st ed., 1919]
Thence-a·fter. rare. After that time; thereafter. [¶] 1593 Tell Troth’s N. Y. Gift (1876) 18 Thence after they must sit no more in the shoppes. 1864 Neale Seaton. Poems 187 Those blessed feet, thenceafter nailed Fast to the bitter cross! - “thence-ˈafter” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989]