heretofore

• It would be pleasant to believe that this means that the natural and unassisted river system is going to continue to serve human needs in the future as it has served them heretofore--that after cleaning up the network of streams and ensuring against their repollution and the desecration of their landscape, men will be able to leave them respectfully alone to run down toward the Chesapeake Bay as they have run during and before human memory However, it is not so. —  The Nation's River A report on the Potomac from the U.S. Department of the Interior
• If Christianity has made any progress in the assimilation of doctrines that are less barbarous than heretofore, they have been effected in spite of the most vigorous resistance, and solely as a result of the onslaught of freethinkers Throughout the ages, when a thinking man had questioned the how and why of any secular problem, so long as that problem had no direct or indirect bearing upon religion, or upon any branch of knowledge that was assumed to be infallibly foretold in the Bible, that man was unmolested. —  The Necessity of Atheism
• Moreover, the Prince, who had recently married, no longer showed the same devotion to music as heretofore--a change of feeling that necessarily produced a corresponding slackening of the ties of friendship and interest which had formerly existed between the Prince and his Capellmeister. —  Story-Lives of Great Musicians
• Whatever consolations from the Spirit of God they may have enjoyed heretofore, they become now doubly anxious to examine and prove themselves whether they be indeed in the faith. —  The Annals of the Poor
• I am told the authorities say they have been too easy heretofore, and must draw the line now. —  Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2

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