Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
sith for since.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb obsolete Since. See
sith , andsithen .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb obsolete
Thereupon ;subsequently ,afterwards . - adverb obsolete
Since . - conjunction obsolete From or since the time that.
- conjunction archaic Seeing that,
since . - preposition obsolete
Since .
Etymologies
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Examples
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(M19) Besides all this, for further proofe of her highnesse title sithence the arriuall of this noble Briton into those parts (that is to say) in the time of the Queenes grandfather of worthy memory, King Henry the seuenth,
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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So now they fell on Hogni even as Atli urged them, and cut the heart from out of him, but such was the might of his manhood, that he laughed while he abode that torment, and all wondered at his worth, and in perpetual memory is it held sithence.
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And indeed I think she would have done it off her that minute had I pressed her, but I lacked the boldness thereto; and I said: Nay, but would she bring it unto me the next time we met; and forsooth she brought it folded in a piece of green silk, and dearly have I loved it and kissed it sithence.
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The knight led her into the ring, and said: Now are we come home for the present, my lady, and if it please thee to light down we shall presently eat and drink, and sithence talk a little.
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So she arose and clad herself, and went straight to the grave begun, and toiled hard till she had digged it out deep, and sithence she dragged the witch thereinto and heaped the earth upon her.
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Fain were she, if she might withal, to give a joy to some other; so that when they were gone but a little way from the castle she reached out her hand to Leonard and took his, and said: Hand in hand we walked when first I went this way, and I deemed thee kind and friendly then, and even so hast thou been sithence.
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But she arose and paced the chamber, and sithence looked out of the window over the empty water, and wept again.
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Wherefore sithence we are committed vnto your charge, you ought in no wise to forsake vs. Then he said: all shalbe well.
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Wherefore sithence we are committed vnto your charge, you ought in no wise to forsake vs. Then he said: all shalbe well.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Which when hee heard, he was exceedingly offended therat, sithence vndoubtedly they did not this at his commaundement or direction.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
bilby commented on the word sithence
"CORIOLANUS: Why, this was known before.
BRUTUS: Not to them all.
CORIOLANUS: Have you inform'd them sithence?"
- William Shakespeare, 'The Tragedy of Coriolanus'.
August 28, 2009