Heretofore
adverb
Until now, or until the point in time being referred to.
The methods heretofore used to teach language have been inefficient.
Often appears as...
- heretofore unknown
- heretofore used
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Formal
Academic
adverb
Until now, or until the point in time being referred to.
The methods heretofore used to teach language have been inefficient.
Often appears as...
- heretofore unknown
- heretofore used
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Time Reference
Use heretofore when referencing events up to a specific past time, signaling a change from past to present.
Heretofore, the company had not considered remote work an option.
Pro Tip 2/3Archaic Tone
Heretofore often appears in historical or legal texts, giving a formal or outdated impression.
The rights heretofore granted are hereby revoked.
Pro Tip 3/3Literary Emphasis
In literature, heretofore can create drama by highlighting an important change or revelation.
Her feelings for him, heretofore hidden, now came to light.
Pro Tip 1/3Time Reference
Use heretofore when referencing events up to a specific past time, signaling a change from past to present.
Heretofore, the company had not considered remote work an option.
Pro Tip 2/3Archaic Tone
Heretofore often appears in historical or legal texts, giving a formal or outdated impression.
The rights heretofore granted are hereby revoked.
Pro Tip 3/3Literary Emphasis
In literature, heretofore can create drama by highlighting an important change or revelation.
Her feelings for him, heretofore hidden, now came to light.
Pro Tip 1/3Time Reference
Use heretofore when referencing events up to a specific past time, signaling a change from past to present.
Heretofore, the company had not considered remote work an option.
Pro Tip 2/3Archaic Tone
Heretofore often appears in historical or legal texts, giving a formal or outdated impression.
The rights heretofore granted are hereby revoked.
Pro Tip 3/3Literary Emphasis
In literature, heretofore can create drama by highlighting an important change or revelation.
Her feelings for him, heretofore hidden, now came to light.
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What type of world do we...
down what are we thinking you know there are thousands of aircrafts and thousands of millions of cars millions of boats how many submarines that enable us to see the other part of the planet that heretofore has not been accessible to us
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Larry Brilliant: TED...
Seva got started because we wanted to apply these lessons of surveillance and epidemiology to something which nobody else was looking at as a public health blindness, which heretofore had been thought of only as a clinical disease.
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John Wesley Powell: From...
may be below I know not from our position yesterday high up on the cliffs the river seemed to make another Great Bend to the south which from our experience heretofore
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What type of world do we...
down what are we thinking you know there are thousands of aircrafts and thousands of millions of cars millions of boats how many submarines that enable us to see the other part of the planet that heretofore has not been accessible to us
Video examples
Larry Brilliant: TED...
Seva got started because we wanted to apply these lessons of surveillance and epidemiology to something which nobody else was looking at as a public health blindness, which heretofore had been thought of only as a clinical disease.
Video examples
John Wesley Powell: From...
may be below I know not from our position yesterday high up on the cliffs the river seemed to make another Great Bend to the south which from our experience heretofore
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John C. Calhoun
American Statesman
Let a durable and firm peace be established and this government be confined rigidly to the few great objects for which it was instituted, leaving the States to contend in generous rivalry to develop, by the arts of peace, their respective resources, and a scene of prosperity and happiness would follow, heretofore unequaled on the globe.
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Rosemary Mahoney
American Writer
One of the many misconceptions about the blind is that they have greater hearing, sense of smell and sense of touch than sighted people. This is not strictly true. Their blindness simply forces them to recognize gifts they always had but had heretofore largely ignored.
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George McGovern
American Politician
When you start one of these programs, school lunch programs, in a country that heretofore had nothing of that kind, immediately school enrollment jumps dramatically. Girls and boys get to the classroom with the promise of a good meal once a day.
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Josiah Strong
American Clergyman
Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have poured their surplus populations.
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James Madison
American President
Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.
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James Forrestal
American Public Servant
Moreover, the accomplishment of Russia's aims has been greatly simplified by the fact that we have heretofore offered the world no practical antidote for the Russian poison.
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Franz Boas
American Scientist
The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science.
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Thomas Malory
English Author
For as well as I have loved thee heretofore, mine heart will not serve now to see thee; for through thee and me is the flower of kings and knights destroyed.
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John Ruskin
English Writer
I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.
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Gustav Krupp
German Businessman
We are all proud of having thus contributed to the heretofore magnificent successes of our army.
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John C. Calhoun
American Statesman
Let a durable and firm peace be established and this government be confined rigidly to the few great objects for which it was instituted, leaving the States to contend in generous rivalry to develop, by the arts of peace, their respective resources, and a scene of prosperity and happiness would follow, heretofore unequaled on the globe.
Quote examples
Rosemary Mahoney
American Writer
One of the many misconceptions about the blind is that they have greater hearing, sense of smell and sense of touch than sighted people. This is not strictly true. Their blindness simply forces them to recognize gifts they always had but had heretofore largely ignored.
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George McGovern
American Politician
When you start one of these programs, school lunch programs, in a country that heretofore had nothing of that kind, immediately school enrollment jumps dramatically. Girls and boys get to the classroom with the promise of a good meal once a day.
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Josiah Strong
American Clergyman
Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have poured their surplus populations.
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James Madison
American President
Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.
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James Forrestal
American Public Servant
Moreover, the accomplishment of Russia's aims has been greatly simplified by the fact that we have heretofore offered the world no practical antidote for the Russian poison.
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Franz Boas
American Scientist
The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science.
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Thomas Malory
English Author
For as well as I have loved thee heretofore, mine heart will not serve now to see thee; for through thee and me is the flower of kings and knights destroyed.
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John Ruskin
English Writer
I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.
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Gustav Krupp
German Businessman
We are all proud of having thus contributed to the heretofore magnificent successes of our army.
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