therefrom

English

Etymology

there + from

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌðeəˈfɹɒm/
  • Rhymes: -ɒm

Adverb

therefrom (not comparable)

  1. (formal) From that; from him, her, or it.
    • 1907, Barbara Baynton, Sally Krimmer; Alan Lawson, editors, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 195:
      Therefrom Boshy's saving propensities, being but the idiosyncrasies of the rich, were mercifully endured and spoken of by Mr. Civil.
    • 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter I, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, OCLC 40817384:
      Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.
    • 1923, H. P. Lovecraft, Hypnos
      Death is merciful, for there is no return therefrom
    Synonym: thence

Translations

See also

Here-, there-, and where- words

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