hitherto
English
Etymology
From Middle English hiderto, corresponding to hither + to.
Pronunciation
Adverb
hitherto (not comparable)
- (formal, also law) Up to this or that time or point.
- Synonyms: up to now, heretofore; see also Thesaurus:hitherto
- Antonyms: from now on, henceforth; see also Thesaurus:henceforth
- 1830, Anna Maria Porter, The Barony, volume 3, page 460:
- The exhaustless conjecturings of that evening's full conversation, made such of the small party, as had hitherto been strangers, well acquainted with each other's turn of mind […]
- 1910 [1848 February 21], Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, chapter I, in Samuel Moore, transl., edited by Friedrich Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party, Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & company, page 12:
- The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
- 2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 124:
- The results of this study argue for a greater endonormativity in Indian English than has hitherto been recognised.
- 2021 October 20, Paul Stephen, “Leisure and pleasure on the Far North Line”, in RAIL, number 942, page 49:
- North of Tain [...], the line reaches the southern shore of Dornoch Firth. Here, the railway and the A9 trunk road, which have hitherto run close together, diverge.
Translations
up to this time
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References
- “hitherto”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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