sithence
English
WOTD – 31 December 2008
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɪðəns/, /sɪˈðɛns/
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Adverb
sithence (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Thereupon; subsequently, afterwards.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Great threasure sithence we did finde
- (obsolete) Since.
Conjunction
sithence
- (obsolete) From or since the time that.
- (archaic) Seeing that, since.
- c. 1527–1542, Thomas Wyatt, “Who so list to hounte”, in Egerton MS 2711, page 7v:
- I leve of therefore
ſithens in a nett I ſeke to hold the wynde
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], book 1, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 93:
- Sithence it muſt continue ſo ſhort a time, and begunne ſo late […], there was no time to be loſt.
Synonyms
- (from or since the time that): sithen; see also Thesaurus:since
- (seeing that): given that, sith; see also Thesaurus:because
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