Definition of "thanne" []

• Obsolete spelling of than. (conjunction)
• Obsolete spelling of than. (preposition)

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• "And "thanne" we are carried a hundred miles away, among entirely different beings, and frequently we hear no more of the first ones."
• "Using Chaucer's spelling this time: "No lenger thanne after Deeth they soughte" -- because, of course, the drunks have found him, though they're too dim to realize it."
• "And thanne wolde hem thinken gretter delyt, than thei hadden before."