thenceforth

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Instead, the Canadian Kuitenbrouwers wound up on a farm in Quebec where, Peter’s mother and stepfather whimsically decreed, they would thenceforth make maple syrup, what the author calls “the national lifeblood” of Canada.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025

A lengthy conversation ensued, and its participants decided to meet weekly thenceforth, to observe the passing of time in freewheeling discourse about such sundry topics as may otherwise escape the attention of this site’s readers.

From Slate • Mar. 12, 2018

The speculation appears to have originated with Patton Oswalt’s Twitter, and then spread thenceforth:

From Salon • Mar. 4, 2016

In theory, the nationalisation of the Bank in 1946 reduced its powers considerably; certainly interest rate decisions thenceforth became the prerogative of chancellors until 1997 and independence.

From The Guardian • Nov. 25, 2012

On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela