sithence

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/ˈsɪðəns//sɪˈðɛns/

adverb

Thereupon; subsequently, afterwards.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

adverbsithence (not comparable)

alternative sithens

  1. not comparableobsoleteThereupon; subsequently, afterwards.

    Great threasure sithence we did finde

    1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. not comparableobsoleteSince.
conjunction

alternative sithens

  1. obsoleteFrom or since the time that.

    Synonyms: sithen

  2. archaicSeeing that, since.

    I leve of therefore ſithens in a nett I ſeke to hold the wynde

    c. 1527–1542, Thomas Wyatt, “Who so list to hounte”, in Egerton MS 2711, page 7v
    1 more example

    Sithence it muſt continue ſo ſhort a time, and begunne ſo late[…], there was no time to be loſt.

    1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 93

    Synonyms: given that

preposition

alternative sithens

  1. obsoleteSince.

Synonyms & antonyms

conjunctionFrom or since the time that.

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conjunctionSeeing that, since.

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