Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb Up to that time; until then.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To that place or point; so far.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb obsolete To that point; so far.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb archaic
thereto , to that point
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Examples
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Josiah had to stand the hectoring and nagging that thitherto had been distributed among many.
THE PRODIGAL FATHER 2010
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The Wife went into a cafe that had thitherto proven very friendly and serviceable.
Thesis: New Yorkers Possibly Nicer Than Midwesterners Brooks of Sheffield 2007
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The Wife went into a cafe that had thitherto proven very friendly and serviceable.
Archive 2007-08-01 Brooks of Sheffield 2007
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"I had not realized thitherto that even a demented sleen could be so wicked."
Magicians of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1988
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But thitherto it had done its job and had held together well - The massacres caused it to divide into four parts.
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But thitherto it had done its job and had held together well - The massacres caused it to divide into four parts.
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Poor Germain, thitherto so worthy and so well-intentioned, rose in the morning an adventurer -- an adventurer, it is true, driven by desperation and anguish into his dangerous part, and grasping the hope of nevertheless yet winning by some forlorn good deed the forgiveness of her who was otherwise lost to him.
The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette William Douw Lighthall
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Most permanently important, perhaps, of all Richardson's contributions, was his creation of complex characters, such as had thitherto appeared not in English novels but only in the drama.
A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher
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Not only was he the most careful of English poets, revising his works with almost unprecedented pains, but his scientific habit of mind insists on the greatest accuracy; in his allusions to Nature he often introduces scientific facts in a way thitherto unparalleled, and sometimes even only doubtfully poetic.
A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher
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Several times during the following two weeks he heard reports of the doings of the mission from different ones of the Indians who went thitherto reconnoitre.
Old Mission Stories of California Charles Franklin Carter
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