6 sentences with “hence”

The professors were all members of the clergy, "professing" religion, hence the term "professor".

Luther, after all, had not set out to divide the church, but to reform it - hence the term "reformation".

The church was partly made of wooden crates used to transport gunpowder for the mine, hence the locals called it the "powder magazine church".

"El Niño" is a disturbance in the form of an ocean current off the coast of Peru that occurs around Christmas - hence its name, inspired by the Christ Child - with a periodicity of about three to eight years.

According to this theory, disease was the result of an overabundance of one humour and a lack of another, hence the centuries-old practice of bleeding someone who was ill in the hope of reducing the "excess" blood.

Amerigo Vespucci coined the phrase "New World" first, hence "America" rather than "Columbia" - Vespucci's accounts were printed first. He was also a relentless self-promoter, whereas Columbus did not attempt to publicise his discoveries with the same approach.