hitherto English

Meaning hitherto meaning

What does hitherto mean?

hitherto

— adverb (= so far, yet) 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

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hitherto English » English

until now

so far

up to now

yet

thus far

as yet

heretofore

til now

hereto

used to

till now

still

previously

hitherunto

consistently

before now

always

all along

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Simple sentences

Nothing gave Elsa so much joy as the little pair of embroidered shoes that she held in her hand, for the girl had hitherto been forced to run about barefoot by her cruel stepmother.

Movie subtitles

We shall make such use of the treasures of sky and sea and earth. as men have never dreamt of hitherto.

If you have hitherto concealed this sight, and whatsoever else shall hap tonight, give it an understanding but no tongue.

To prepare for this stride forward, we are assembling data on conditions at atmospheric levels beyond those hitherto explored.

I pray you all, if you have hitherto concealed this, let it be so still.

The message we received from Mars probe 7. told us that the deep-space capsule. had passed through a hitherto unsuspected, high density radiation belt, on its way back to Earth orbit.

Well, this is a completely uncharted lake With, like, hitherto unclassified marine life, man So the whole scene's wide open for a scientific exploration.

I've not hitherto been privileged to meet a general of Bonaparte's army.

I've hitherto suspected in you but not noticed, due to highly evasive skills.

If you have hitherto concealed this sight, let it be tenable in your silence still.

Although I'm given to understand that subterfuges are used which ensure that ardent spirits are more readily available than hitherto.

Hitherto, Wilmot has been sheltered from the temptations of a great city.

And when I do, if you so much as utter a word, a syllable, you will be investigating hitherto unexplored realms of pain.

I pray you all, if you have hitherto concealed this sight let it be tenable in your silence still and whatsoever else shall hap tonight give it an understanding but no tongue.

And hitherto does love on fortune tend for who not needs shall never lack a friend and who in want a hollow friend doth try directly seasons him his enemy.

Not hitherto, but today maybe.

We have caused that the altar hitherto in this church should be carefully removed and protected from desecration.

Who has discovered a new breed of plant hitherto unknown on this planet.

You are lord of all my duty. I am hitherto your daughter.

And I pray you all, if you have hitherto concealed this sight, let it be tenable in your silence still.

And on a more formal basis than hitherto.

Olivia didn't need anyone to help June to the toilet while she was at work, as hitherto they had coped splendidly with Olivia's excellent diaper arrangement.

The government, deliberating on the hard international situation and forced by circumstances coming out of the Munich diktat, could do nothing other than bow its hitherto proud Czechoslovak head to unprecedented pressure.

And the hitherto merciful fishermen threw him into a cave.

As for the question of reincarnation, I resolved to wait and see, albeit with more anticipation than hitherto.

Hitherto, the lifeblood has been chilling in your veins as you've sat aloof. While the rest of the world was fighting out its battle.

My life and education both do learn me how to respect you. You are the lord of duty, I am hitherto your daughter.

Good people, you know already the reasons for which this building, hitherto consecrated and separated from all worldly uses, shall be taken down or appropriated to other purposes.

You will see the hitherto unprecedented phenomenon.

Why would a man, hitherto so worthy of esteem, deliberately want to humiliate me?

I have not hitherto been privileged to meet a general of Bonaparte's army.

Leeuwenhoek and Huygens were among the first people to see human sperm cells a hitherto hidden microcosm of the human life cycle.

I would say. that that represents a degree of hypocrisy. I've hitherto suspected in you but not noticed, due to highly evasive skills.

I shall continue the monk-like existence which has characterised my life hitherto.

I'm gonna let go of you and your nose now, and when I do, if you so much as utter a word, a syllable, you will be investigating hitherto unexplored realms of pain.

News and current affairs

These could address such hitherto intractable diseases as Parkinson's disease and diabetes, or even such scourges such as end stage heart failure.

The international community must therefore recognize that it is not enough to promote, organize, or monitor elections in hitherto undemocratic countries.

Europe's leaders will find that improving education and training - and throwing open hitherto protected markets - is a long and arduous task.

But the old member states that have hitherto benefited most from the budget - poorer countries like Spain, Greece, and Portugal - want the budget to be expanded, so that they can continue to receive money.

Mr. Bush's international credibility, they should emphasize, does not suffer through avoiding a war but gains further through controlling Iraq's hitherto covert military effort.

This credit replaces the private capital imports that had hitherto financed the country's net purchases of foreign goods, but which dried up because of the crisis, and it finances a capital flight, i.e. the purchase of foreign assets.

He will thus contribute to a reconciliation of the hitherto nationalist French right and modern conservatism as it is practiced elsewhere.

As all the possible options are bad, the situation qualifies as a veritable Greek tragedy such as those hitherto seen only on stage.

Hitherto EU governments have largely pretended that enlargement is a small-scale serial process, with individual new members coming in one after another.

Even hitherto sensible anthropologists and social historians seem to have succumbed to this travesty of scholarship.

There was good news, however, in that the Stockholm summit witnessed the first signs that the EU may at last be creeping, crab-wise, toward an idea hitherto taboo: that the European Union may require an immigration policy.

To do the same thing with bank debt could pull hitherto sound economies into the abyss, because bank's balance sheets are much larger than the volume of government debt.

The electoral process in Indonesia is reaching a level of equity and accountability hitherto unknown in that country.

The election of the militant and hitherto extra-parliamentary group Hamas in the Palestinian territories reminds us of what democracy cannot achieve.

No wonder the taxi drivers of Paris and other French cities - hitherto protected from competition - have protested so vehemently (and, on occasion, violently).

The situation is often amplified by a natural human tendency to overproduce and over-consume hitherto restricted goods and services.

This autumn, he promoted his hitherto little-seen son, Kim Jong-un, to the rank of general, and introduced him at a Communist Party conference.

For Russia, a new treaty would allow it to live with the hitherto nightmare scenario of Ukrainian accession to NATO; as long as the pact remained in force, Ukraine's membership would have no military consequences.

Even hitherto independent central banks have not escaped the creep toward state-sponsored capitalism.

Civil-society groups in Germany, Austria, and elsewhere mobilized to a hitherto unseen extent to meet - together with the public authorities - the enormous challenge posed by the influx.

A hitherto latent rivalry between Iran and Israel thus has been transformed into an open struggle for dominance in the Middle East.

In early October, Iranian officials met in Geneva with representatives of the permanent members of the UN Security Council (plus Germany) and agreed to allow the International Atomic Energy Agency to inspect the hitherto secret plant.

The West has established the economic model of the twenty-first century, with its hitherto unheard of standard of living, and almost all nations and regions are trying to equal it, no matter what the cost.

A sense of alienation towards the West is spreading, and Turkey's diplomatic relations with Russia have reached a hitherto unknown intimacy.