thenceforward

variants also thenceforwards

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of thenceforward This contrived right — never before or since applied to any other refugee population — found its way into U.N. General Assembly Resolution 194, which Arab governments thenceforward wielded as a cudgel against the Jewish state. Michael M. Rosen, National Review, 20 Aug. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for thenceforward
Adverb
  • The confidence rose in his game thereafter.
    Beren Cross, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Rester made a diving save less than a minute later, and Owen Johnston — Mounds Park Academy’s goaltender — snared a Clark shot about two minutes thereafter to keep the game 1-1.
    Mike Cook, Twin Cities, 23 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Another street was renamed late last year: not long after the Presidential election, the Miami-Dade County Commission declared that a four-mile stretch of Palm Avenue would henceforth be known as President Donald J. Trump Avenue.
    Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • This is henceforth the fate of Charlie Kirk's family: A spouse left abruptly, heartbreakingly without a life partner.
    Kevin Powell, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Florida has this weekend become the biggest fan of Oklahoma and Vanderbilt, and any other school playing Ole Miss and Missouri hereafter.
    Matt Hayes, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2025
  • There is nothing here that indicates, as the late Professor Harbage has well said, that in order to be king hereafter Macbeth must be murderer first.
    Emily Zarevich, JSTOR Daily, 3 Sep. 2025

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“Thenceforward.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thenceforward. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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