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- adverb rare
heretofore
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Examples
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Sheila, for my part just how “I sense my kindred hithertofore unbeknownst to me before you.”
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts – Crimson & Clover | clusterflock 2009
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Sheila, for my part just how “I sense my kindred hithertofore unbeknownst to me before you.”
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts – Crimson & Clover | clusterflock 2009
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Verity are you suggesting that those of us who hithertofore "have steadfastly refused the vote for them" should actually vote Labour at the next election?
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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Even if one looks to the Enlightenment as a moment when the concept of the European nation-state was being forged — hence, as a point in time at which certain progressive possibilities may not yet have been foreclosed on — the study may feel more like the investigation of the aetiology of a disease than an excavation of laudable principles that have hithertofore been neglected.
Patriot Acts: The Political Language of Henrich von Kleist 2006
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Verity are you suggesting that those of us who hithertofore "have steadfastly refused the vote for them" should actually vote Labour at the next election?
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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I took a walk along the beach far enough to see all the entrances to this port and by ascending an eminence was confirmed in my opinion that several of those dangerous sand rollers had shifted their berths and by so doing had rendered the channel narrower than hithertofore.
The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson With the journal of her first commander Lieutenant James Grant Ida Lee 1904
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The citizens of the Republic of China shall enjoy all other forms of freedom aside from those hithertofore mentioned, provided they are not contrary to the spirit of the Constitution.
The Fight for the Republic in China Bertram Lenox Simpson 1903
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The National Territory of the Republic of China shall be in accordance with the dominion hithertofore existing.
The Fight for the Republic in China Bertram Lenox Simpson 1903
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The Freedman's Bank, as it is popularly called, was designed originally to perform for this trustful people the functions, as its name implies, of a savings bank, and none other than those hithertofore held in slavery or their descendants were to become its depositors.
Defense of the Negro Race----Charges Answered. Speech of Hon. George H. White, of North Carolina, in the House of Representatives, January 29, 1901 George Henry 1901
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To receive on deposit such sums of money as may from time to time be offered therefor, by or in behalf of persons hithertofore held in slavery in the United States, or their descendants, and investing the same in the stocks, bonds, and Treasury notes, or other securities of the United States.
Defense of the Negro Race----Charges Answered. Speech of Hon. George H. White, of North Carolina, in the House of Representatives, January 29, 1901 George Henry 1901
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