thence
adv. placeadv. from that place or from that time. It is a very formal word used to show where someone went next or what happened after a specific event.
adv. from that place or source; following from that fact or time. Used in formal or literary contexts to indicate a point of origin or a logical consequence.
We went to Paris and thence to Rome.
The hikers reached the summit by noon and thence descended into the valley before nightfall.
The river flows into the Great Lake and thence to the sea, carrying with it the sediment of three different mountain ranges.
From Middle English þennes, from þenne + -es (“adverbial ending”), the former from þanan, þanona, from Proto-West Germanic *þananā. Cognate with Westphalian Low German diëne.
Typically used in formal writing to avoid repeating 'from there'; it can also indicate a logical progression in an argument.