Hitherto
adverb
Until now or until the point in time being mentioned.
The disease had been believed, hitherto, to be incurable.
Often appears as...
- hitherto unknown
- hitherto unseen
Usage tips
Formal
adverb
Until now or until the point in time being mentioned.
The disease had been believed, hitherto, to be incurable.
Often appears as...
- hitherto unknown
- hitherto unseen
Usage tips
Formal
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Past Reference
Use 'hitherto' to refer to a period extending into the past, up to the current point or event discussed.
His hitherto spotless reputation was now under scrutiny.
Pro Tip 2/3Formal Tone
'Hitherto' often appears in formal or academic texts rather than casual conversation.
The hitherto accepted theories are now being questioned.
Pro Tip 3/3Emphasis on Change
Use 'hitherto' when emphasizing a change from past to present, particularly when introducing newly discovered information.
This hitherto unexplored area offers great scientific potential.
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Charles Hazlewood:...
that was hitherto hidden, the community of disabled people. And I found myself looking at the Paralympics and thinking how incredible how technology's been harnessed to prove beyond doubt that disability is no barrier to the highest levels of sporting achievement. Of course there's a grimmer side to that truth,
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Charles Hazlewood:...
that was hitherto hidden, the community of disabled people. And I found myself looking at the Paralympics and thinking how incredible how technology's been harnessed to prove beyond doubt that disability is no barrier to the highest levels of sporting achievement. Of course there's a grimmer side to that truth,
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Linda Colley
British Historian
I write to relieve an intellectual itch. I stumble across a hitherto neglected set of events, transformations, characters, or source materials from the past, and they nag at me until I make sense of them in words. But I also write to seduce and to make my readers think.
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Tom Tancredo
American Politician
Conservatives have welcomed Trump's attacks on the establishment, have cheered his boldness, and have applauded his courage. He has taken on hitherto taboo issues like immigration enforcement and has demonstrated the hollowness of what passes for conventional wisdom.
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Ibrahim Babangida
Nigerian Statesman
Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting institutions.
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Douglas Adams
English Writer
It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.
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Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
French Lawyer
The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown.
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Wassily Kandinsky
Russian Artist
Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?
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Taslima Nasrin
Bangladeshi Writer
Among all the 'awards' that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of 'patita' or 'fallen woman' to be the highest. This is an achievement of my long-struggling life as a writer and as a woman.
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Hjalmar Schacht
German Economist
It has been shown that, in contrast to everything which classical national economy has hitherto taught, not the producer but the consumer is the ruling factor in economic life.
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D. H. Lawrence
English Writer
I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.
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Samuel E. Morison
American Historian
Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.
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Linda Colley
British Historian
I write to relieve an intellectual itch. I stumble across a hitherto neglected set of events, transformations, characters, or source materials from the past, and they nag at me until I make sense of them in words. But I also write to seduce and to make my readers think.
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Tom Tancredo
American Politician
Conservatives have welcomed Trump's attacks on the establishment, have cheered his boldness, and have applauded his courage. He has taken on hitherto taboo issues like immigration enforcement and has demonstrated the hollowness of what passes for conventional wisdom.
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Ibrahim Babangida
Nigerian Statesman
Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting institutions.
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Douglas Adams
English Writer
It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.
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Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
French Lawyer
The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown.
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Wassily Kandinsky
Russian Artist
Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?
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Taslima Nasrin
Bangladeshi Writer
Among all the 'awards' that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of 'patita' or 'fallen woman' to be the highest. This is an achievement of my long-struggling life as a writer and as a woman.
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Hjalmar Schacht
German Economist
It has been shown that, in contrast to everything which classical national economy has hitherto taught, not the producer but the consumer is the ruling factor in economic life.
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D. H. Lawrence
English Writer
I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.
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Samuel E. Morison
American Historian
Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.
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