thenceforth
Example Sentences
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Dionysius decided that the year of Christ’s birth should, thenceforth, be the year 1 anno Domini, or the first year of Our Lord.
From Literature
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.
From Literature
His memoir records payments as an MI5 informant: “I was to act thenceforth under the direction and supervision of the Military Intelligence Department.”
From The Guardian
He entered the business as a civil rights organizer in the 1960s and carried the left-wing flame thenceforth.
From Washington Post
Women would own it, thenceforth, and could use it with impunity for their own unhinged purposes.
From Washington Post
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