thenceforward
pronunciation
How to pronounce thenceforward in British English:
UK [ˌðens'fɔ:wəd]
How to pronounce thenceforward in American English:
US [ˌðens'fɔwəd]
Word Origin
- thenceforward (adv.)
- mid-15c., from thence + forward.
Example
- 1. From thenceforward that bargain struck in child 's play made me a free man .
- 2. And the days being expired , on the eighth day and thenceforward , the priests shall offer your holocausts upon the altar , and the peace offerings : and I will be pacified towards you , saith the lord god .
- 3. Thenceforward , international military tribunal and international military tribunal for the far east were respectively set up to inflict a punishment on a individual criminal committed crimes against humanity , war crimes , and crime against peace during the war .
- 4. The new aesthetic forms were thenceforward written off as typical aberrations of late capitalism society .
- 5. The emancipation proclamation said all slaves were " then , thenceforward , and forever free " on the first of january 1863 .