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Until a particular moment
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hitherto | American Dictionary

hitherto
adverb[ not gradable ]
 fmlus/ˈhɪð·ərˌtu/
until now or until a particular time:
Economic aid has been offered to hitherto depressed people.

Examples of hitherto

hitherto
This would have meant placing more emphasis on persuasion than coercion, as had been the practice hitherto.
The conclusions appreciably raise the figures hitherto suggested by most modern scholars.
In this sense, it points to a hitherto ignored facet of participatory mechanisms; the importance of different kinds of knowledge being transferred between groups.
Sometimes, and such moments are often recounted as memorable events, they combine two or more knowns into a hitherto unknown.
Issues of coercion, legitimacy, treason and witchcraft have hitherto hardly been addressed.
It is notable that it has been achieved through the marriage of subjects hitherto largely confined to distinct histories : reading practices and domestic piety.
Novelists and dramatists put hitherto taboo dialogue into the mouths of characters whose real counterparts would be unlikely to use it.
It can forge connections between things hitherto seen as separate or urge new categorizations of familiar material.
An increasing role for private provision also exposes contributors to market risks from which they have hitherto been shielded.
Our remarkable mental capacity has taken us out of the sphere of influence of natural selection which has hitherto ensured man's survival.
We have hitherto considered how the law regards that species of so-called artificial persons which we know as the corporation.
The hitherto neglected utility buildings had survived largely unaltered, with most of their original finishes.
No confirmation of this accuracy has hitherto been given for forced motions.
A number of enzymes have been isolated and characterized, and hitherto unknown branches of the pathway have been described.
When making multinational comparisons of the burden of stroke, the burden on the family seems to be a crucial, but hitherto a much neglected component.
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