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# thenceforth

«thenceforth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **from then on** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### kind

archaic word

### modern equivalent

from then on

### part of speech

adverb

### meaning for a pupil

From that time onward. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thenceforth/#m1)

### how it differs from today

No longer used in everyday speech; today we say "from then on."

### examples

- Thenceforth he sought for some one to tell him his faults, but among those around him he found no one who would tell him of any fault, but heard only his own praise. (Indian Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thenceforth/#x1)

### tests

manual 10.1; corpora 3 (Torah 1, tales 2, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.3 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «thenceforth» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thenceforth/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.