Meanings
alternative sithens
- 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 - not comparableobsoleteSince.
alternative sithens
- 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 7v1 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 93Synonyms: given that
Synonyms & antonyms
conjunctionFrom or since the time that.
conjunctionSeeing that, since.
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