thenceforth

T1H4E1N1C3E1F4O1R1T1H4
UK/ˌðɛnsˈfɔːθ/US/ˌðɛnsˈfɔːɹθ/

adverb

From that time on.

UncommonScrabble 22

Meanings

adverbthenceforth (not comparable)
  1. not comparableFrom that time on.

    1927-1929 — Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography or The Story of my Experiments with Truth, "Nirbal Ke Bala Rama", translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai I decided to act thenceforth with great caution; not to leave the house, but somehow leave Portsmouth.

    4 more examples

    ...to the end, that all such foes to the rights of British-America may be publicly known, and universally contemned as the enemies of American liberty; and thenceforth we respectively will break off all dealings with him or her.

    1774, First Continental Congress, The Articles of Association

    Furthermore: you must know that when the second iron is thrown overboard, it thenceforth becomes a dangling, sharp-edged terror, skittishly curvetting about both boat and whale, entangling the lines, or cutting them, and making a prodigious sensation in all directions.

    1851, Herman Melville, chapter 63, in Moby Dick

    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.

    1861, Charles Dickens, chapter VI, in Great Expectations

    Here his hand trembled as he set his pen to the proclamation that declared slaves thenceforth and forever free.

    1994 February 12, Bill Clinton, Presidential Radio Address

    Synonyms: thenceforward, thenceforwards

Synonyms & antonyms

adverbFrom that time on.

More synonyms by meaning

adverbfrom that time on

Similar

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Middle Englishthennesforth
  2. Englishthenceforth

From Middle English thennesforth, equivalent to thence + forth.

Full word history & related roots →

Translations

Bulgarian оттогава
  • оттогава (ottogava)from that time on
Esperanto ekde tiam
  • ekde tiamfrom that time on
French dès lors
  • dès lorsfrom that time on
Hungarian attól fogva, azt követően
  • attól fogvafrom that time on
  • azt követőenfrom that time on
Latin inde, ex eo tempore
  • indefrom that time on
  • ex eo temporefrom that time on
Norwegian Bokmål fra da av
  • fra da avfrom that time on
Polish od tego czasu
  • od tego czasufrom that time on
Russian с тех по́р
  • с тех по́р (s tex pór)from that time on
Scottish Gaelic o sin a-mach, on uair sin a-mach
  • o sin a-machfrom that time on
  • on uair sin a-machfrom that time on
Swedish alltifrån den tiden, från och med då
  • alltifrån den tidenfrom that time on
  • från och med dåfrom that time on
  • sedan dessfrom that time on
Welsh o'r amser hwnnw
  • o'r amser hwnnwfrom that time on
Cite this entry
APA

thenceforth. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/thenceforth

MLA

“thenceforth.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/thenceforth. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “thenceforth,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/thenceforth.

Source: thenceforth on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.