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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hitherto
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
unknown
▪ This has uncovered some interesting findings - for instance the hitherto unknown demand for 3.3V chips from desktop system designers.
▪ We are amid corruption of a hitherto unknown scale but not without some precedent.
▪ But Brindley's canal from the coal-mines at Worsley to Manchester had several features hitherto unknown.
▪ Isabel trembled, half afraid, half shocked, at such shameless, hitherto unknown longings.
▪ It now remains to ask whether there is any significance in this hitherto unknown fact.
▪ No details are given of this hitherto unknown organisation, but the platform put forward by the paper looks like pure Thatcherism.
▪ Recently a hitherto unknown phenomenon has appeared in Illela: property speculation.
▪ This meant seeking out even more diverse wines from hitherto unknown sources, which further taxed the new-found art of blending.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ French astronomers have found a hitherto unknown galaxy.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A fourth gallery hitherto not previously in these columns is Gisela Capitain, at Apostelnstrasse 19.
▪ In order to ingratiate himself with the populace, he rebuilt the Temple of Jerusalem on a hitherto unprecedented scale.
▪ Isabel trembled, half afraid, half shocked, at such shameless, hitherto unknown longings.
▪ It is received with fear; for it threatens that comforting security and certainty which hitherto have shaped our actions.
▪ They have hitherto been the most generally used in clinical trials.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hitherto

Hitherto \Hith"er*to`\, adv.

  1. To this place; to a prescribed limit.

    Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further.
    --Job xxxviii. 11.

  2. Up to this time; as yet; until now.

    The Lord hath blessed me hitherto.
    --Josh. xvii. 14.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hitherto

c.1200, from hither + to.

Wiktionary
hitherto

adv. (context formal or legal English) Up to this or that time.

WordNet
hitherto

adv. 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" [syn: so far, thus far, up to now, heretofore, as yet, yet, til now, until now]

Usage examples of "hitherto".

And in the event, it has hitherto been found, that, though some sensible inconveniencies arise from the maxim of adhering strictly to law, yet the advantages overbalance them, and should render the English grateful to the memory of their ancestors, who, after repeated contests, at last established that noble, though dangerous principle.

He will simply allude, in conclusion, to the performances of the Mysterious Foundling, as exhibiting perfection hitherto unparalleled in the Art of Legerdemain, with wonders of untraceable intricacy on the cards, originally the result of abstruse calculations made by that renowned Algebraist, Mohammed Engedi, extending over a period of ten years, dating from the year 1215 of the Arab Chronology.

In a grey cloak and a round, grey hat with gold cords, followed closely by two shadowy attendant figures, he stepped briskly amain, eager to open those gates across the path of his ambition, locked against him hitherto by the very hands from which he now went to receive the key.

Her solitude daily increased, as the youth, who really loved her with all the ardency of a first passion, and who regarded her at the same time with no little veneration for those superior gifts of mind and education which, it was the general conviction in Charlemont, that she possessed, became, at length, discouraged in a pursuit which hitherto had found nothing but coldness and repulse.

I immediately intimated to our Government that this circumstance would probably give a new turn to the operations of the combined army, for hitherto the uncertainty of its movements and the successive counterorders afforded no possibility of ascertaining any determined plan.

What astonished the most acute was that this wonderful treaty was conceived and carried out by a young ambassador who had hitherto been famed only as a wit.

And the people which had hitherto sat in darkness, now beholding the great light, proclaimed their thanks and their praises, and magnified Patrick, who was the preacher of the Eternal Light.

In some such way the grave warnings of Master Byles Gridley had called up a fully shaped, but hitherto unworded, train of thought in the consciousness of Myrtle Hazard.

The hole in the cascabel for reeving a breeching has been purposely omitted in howitzers, as hitherto the use of a breeching has not been found necessary.

I felt angry with the impudent woman who had hitherto paid me so little attention, and I wrote that I could only pity her, and that I had no time to go and see her, and that I should be ashamed to ask anyone to bail her out.

Hitherto the lottery had always been a gainer, but its late loss could not have come at a worse time.

In their stately setting of cryptomeria, few of which are less than 20 feet in girth at 3 feet from the ground, they take one prisoner by their beauty, in defiance of all rules of western art, and compel one to acknowledge the beauty of forms and combinations of colour hitherto unknown, and that lacquered wood is capable of lending itself to the expression of a very high idea in art.

By the aid of a friend, I also present some poems complete and correct which hitherto have been defaced by various mistakes and omissions.

At this same period there was a terrific pressure to discover some cheap and efficient way of desalinating water, because the whole of human civilization was facing an acute shortage of this hitherto taken for granted commodity.

For them, the defining technology was the clock and its associated systems of gears, cogs and hydraulic transmission, which together could generate precisions of mathematically describable motion hitherto unimaginable.