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HENCEFORTH
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
From this time forth; from now on
Example:
henceforth she will be known as Mrs. Smith
Synonyms:
henceforth; henceforward
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Context examples:
Hitherto I have hated to be helped—to be led: henceforth, I feel I shall hate it no more.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
She would henceforth admit his attentions without any idea beyond immediate amusement.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Henceforth no effort of mine, no piteous cry or agonised entreaty, would make them even look at me.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
But advancing forward towards my master (as I shall henceforth call him,) his youngest son, who sat next to him, an arch boy of about ten years old, took me up by the legs, and held me so high in the air, that I trembled every limb: but his father snatched me from him, and at the same time gave him such a box on the left ear, as would have felled an European troop of horse to the earth, ordering him to be taken from the table.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
This, madam, is a faithful narrative of every event in which we have been concerned together; and if you do not absolutely reject it as false, you will, I hope, acquit me henceforth of cruelty towards Mr. Wickham.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
The coming of her sister's family was so very near at hand, that first in anticipation, and then in reality, it became henceforth her prime object of interest; and during the ten days of their stay at Hartfield it was not to be expected—she did not herself expect—that any thing beyond occasional, fortuitous assistance could be afforded by her to the lovers.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Then they took the old grandfather to the table, and henceforth always let him eat with them, and likewise said nothing if he did spill a little of anything.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
I humbly entreat my Redeemer to give me strength to lead henceforth a purer life than I have done hitherto!
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Henceforth our work is to be a sealed book to her, till at least such time as we can tell her that all is finished, and the earth free from a monster of the nether world.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
My principal endeavour was to learn the language, which my master (for so I shall henceforth call him), and his children, and every servant of his house, were desirous to teach me; for they looked upon it as a prodigy, that a brute animal should discover such marks of a rational creature.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
