hitherto

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Despite her efforts to hide it he had discerned how dreary the days had been for her hitherto, and now he was glad he could think of her with the background she pictured for him.

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  1. adverb Until this time: The weather, which had hitherto been sunny and mild, suddenly turned cold.

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  • Honour was learning lessons which ran counter to every maxim that had influenced her hitherto, and baffled all her efforts to reconstruct her vanished world. —  The Path to Honour
  • We have lived a very quiet life hitherto, and now desire to make a name in the world. —  Chatterbox, 1906
  • Despite her efforts to hide it he had discerned how dreary the days had been for her hitherto, and now he was glad he could think of her with the background she pictured for him. —  Mary Ware's Promised Land
  • The "Flying Post" warns all "he-Jacobites" and "she-Jacobites" that if they are not careful they will meet with more severe treatment than hitherto, and then alludes to some pretty severe treatment the poor "she-Jacobites" had already received Sidenote: 1715--"All for our rightful King To do the King and his family justice, they behaved with courage and composure through this long season of popular excitement. —  A History of the Four Georges, Volume I (of 4)
  • On that word it has not been necessary hitherto, and for obvious reasons, to place any emphasis, but when we come to deal with false pretenders to Immortality we must return to it. —  Natural Law in the Spiritual World
 

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  1. from Middle English hiderto, from hider, hither, + to, to.
 

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/hɪðərˈtu/
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