Use the adverb hitherto when you're describing a state or circumstance that existed up until now. If you find a hitherto undiscovered hidden tunnel in your cellar, you're the first to discover it.
To this place; to a prescribed limit.
Adverb
used in negative statement to describe a situation that has existed up to this point or up to the present time; "So far he hasn''t called"; "the sun isn''t up yet"
adv.
To this place; to a prescribed limit.
adv.
Up to this time; as yet; until now.
Hitherto
Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further.2.
The Lord hath blessed me hitherto.
To this place; to a prescribed limit.
Usage Examples
In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known.
My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son.
A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.
Misspelled Formhitherto, ghitherto, yhitherto, uhitherto, jhitherto, nhitherto, githerto, yitherto, uitherto, jitherto, nitherto, hgitherto, hyitherto, huitherto, hjitherto, hnitherto, huitherto, h8itherto, h9itherto, hoitherto, hjitherto, hkitherto, hutherto, h8therto, h9therto, hotherto, hjtherto, hktherto, hiutherto, hi8therto, hi9therto, hiotherto, hijtherto, hiktherto, hirtherto, hi5therto, hi6therto, hiytherto, higtherto, hirherto, hi5herto, hi6herto, hiyherto, higherto, hitrherto, hit5herto, hit6herto, hityherto, hitgherto, hitgherto, hityherto, hituherto, hitjherto, hitnherto, hitgerto, hityerto, hituerto, hitjerto, hitnerto, hithgerto, hithyerto, hithuerto, hithjerto, hithnerto, hithwerto, hith3erto, hith4erto, hithrerto, hithserto, hithderto, hithwrto, hith3rto, hith4rto, hithrrto, hithsrto, hithdrto, hithewrto, hithe3rto, hithe4rto, hitherrto, hithesrto, hithedrto, hitheerto, hithe4rto, hithe5rto, hithetrto, hithefrto, hitheeto, hithe4to, hithe5to, hithetto, hithefto, hithereto, hither4to, hither5to, hithertto, hitherfto, hitherrto, hither5to, hither6to, hitheryto, hithergto, hitherro, hither5o, hither6o, hitheryo, hithergo, hithertro, hithert5o, hithert6o, hithertyo, hithertgo, hithertio, hithert9o, hithert0o, hithertpo, hithertlo, hitherti, hithert9, hithert0, hithertp, hithertl, hithertoi, hitherto9, hitherto0, hithertop, hithertol.
Other Usage ExamplesHitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.
Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.
The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science.
Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.
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