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View synonyms for hitherto

hitherto

[ hith-er-too ]

adverb

  1. up to this time; until now:

    a fact hitherto unknown.

  2. to here.


hitherto

/ ˈhɪðəˈtuː /

adverb

  1. until this time

    hitherto, there have been no problems

  2. archaic.
    to this place or point


adjective

  1. until this time

    a hitherto unoccupied house

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Word History and Origins

Origin of hitherto1

First recorded in 1175–1225; Middle English hiderto; hither, to

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Example Sentences

With Bruce Wayne out of the picture, Dick Grayson is free to cultivate that hitherto underdeveloped aspect of his abilities.

At the three-hour-mark, the hitherto obliging Lanzmann finally becomes irritated.

Here is a hitherto little-known fact; Prince Charles and his wife Camilla both delivered by the same guy.

Obama's effect on Israel's public debate has been electric, reigniting the hitherto comatose discussion of the West Bank.

Her father attempted to stage an intervention into her drinking, and it was reported that she had a hitherto unknown half-sister.

But hitherto, before these new ideas began to spread in our community, the mass of men and women definitely settled down.

It has only been a rare and exceptional class hitherto that has gone on learning throughout life.

The scene and field of that learning hitherto has been, in our Western communities, the University.

His accumulating doubts hitherto unexpressed, almost unacknowledged even, were now confirmed.

Then she put her anger from her; put from her, too, the insolence and scorn with which so lavishly she had addressed him hitherto.

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