adv. Obs. exc. dial. Forms: α. 4–5 þerhenne, (4 therhanne). β. 4 þer hannes, 6– there(-)hence, (6 therence (9 dial.), therehens, 7 therhence). [f. THERE 17 + HEN, HENNE adv., and hennes, hens, HENCE adv.]
1. From or out of that place; from there: = THENCE 1. Now dial.
α. c. 1300. Beket, 1145. Therhanne he wende to Eystrie.
a. 1400[?]. Arthur, 591. Muche folke þerhenne he toke þo.
β. c. 1400. R. Gloucester’s Chron. (Rolls), App. AA. 2. He nolde þer hannes passi.
1548. Udall, Erasm. Par. Luke viii. 89. Therehens as … out of a chaire or pulpite he taught the multitude.
1600. Hakluyt, Voy. (1904), X. 101. The famous voyage of Sir Francis Drake into the South sea, and therehence about the whole Globe of the earth, begun in 1577.
1724. R. Welton, Chr. Faith & Pract., 367. The waves toss the ships up to the very clouds, and the winds therehence drive them to the deep abyss.
1898. T. Hardy, Wessex Poems, 46. Stone deaf therence went many a man.
† 2. From that source or origin; from that fact or circumstance: = THENCE 4. Obs.
1528. Tindale, Parable Wicked Mammon, 16. Hamon, in the Ebrewe speche sygnyfyeth a multytude or abundaunce…. And therhence commeth mahamon or mammon, abundaunce or plenteousnes of goodes or ryches.
1597. J. King, On Jonas (1618), 10. Therehence, they say, he was named the son of Amittai; that is, the sonne of truth.
1623. W. C., Fatall Vesper, 4. Those vnreuealed attributes, which doe flow therehence.
1718. Swift, To Sheridan, 3. I have a great esteem for Plautus; And think your boys may gather there-hence More wit and humour than from Terence.
† 3. Distant from that place: = THENCE 2. rare.
1611. Coryat, Crudities, 10. A countrey village … fourteene miles therehence distant. Ibid., 68. A parish tenne miles therehence.
