Hence

adv. [O. Eng. hennes, hens, and henen, henne, A-S. hinan, hinane, heonane, heonan, heonon, hence, thither; O. H. Ger. hinnân, hinên, hinana, N. H. Ger. hinnen, A-S. hina, hin, heona, hence, thither; O. H. Ger. hina, M. H. Ger. hine, N. H. Ger. hin, originally accusative of Goth. his, this, accusative hina; Eng. hennes, hens, hence, is the termination of a genitive.] 1. From this place. Arise, let us go hence. John xiv. 31. I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles. Acts xxii. 21.

2. From this time; in the future; as, a week hence; a year hence.
3. From this cause or reason; as an inference or deduction.

Hence, perhaps, it is, that Solomon calls the fear of the Lord the beginning of wisdom. Tillotson. Whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence, even of your lusts? James iv. 1. 4. From this source, origin, or cause. “All other faces borrowed hence.” Suckling. ☞ Hence is used, elliptically and imperatively, for go hence; depart hence; away; be gone. “Hence with your little ones.” Shak.—From hence, though a pleonasm, is authorized by the usage of good writers.