hence

Etymology

A later Middle English spelling, retaining the voiceless -s, of hennes (henne + adverbial genitive ending -s), from Old English heonan (“away", "hence”), from a Proto-West Germanic *hin-, from Proto-Germanic *hiz, and Proto-Germanic *-anē. Cognate with Old Saxon hinan, Old High German hinnan (German hinnen), Dutch heen, Swedish hän. Related to Old English her (“here”).

adv

1. (archaic) From here, from this place, away.
   I'm going hence, because you have insulted me.
   Get thee hence, Satan!
   Ye men of Galilee! / Why stand ye looking up to heaven, where Him ye ne’er may see, / Neither ascending hence, nor returning hither again? 1849, Arthur Hugh Clough, Easter Day (Naples, 1849)
2. (archaic, figurative) From the living or from this world.
   After a long battle, my poor daughter was taken hence.
3. (of a length of time) In the future from now.
   A year hence it will be forgotten.
4. (conjunctive) As a result; therefore, for this reason.
   I shall go to Japan and hence will not be here in time for the party.
   The purse is handmade and hence very expensive.
   Hence that general is skillful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skillful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack. 1910, Sun Tzu, Lionel Giles (translator), The Art of War, Section VI: Weak Points and Strong, 8
   Hence it comes that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed. 1910, [1513], Niccolò Machiavelli, chapter VI, in Ninian Hill Thomson, transl., The Prince
   That hence arises the peculiar Unhappiness of that Business, which other Callings are no way liable to; May 27 1731, Benjamin Franklin, “Apology for Printers”, in The Pennsylvania Gazette

intj

1. (obsolete) Go away! Begone!

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To utter "hence!" to; to send away.
2. (dated, intransitive) To depart; to go away.