Definition of Hitherto

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Definition of Hitherto
	Hitherto To this place; to a prescribed limit. Up to this time; as yet; until now. Related Definitions: As, Limit, Now, Place, Prescribed, This, Time, To, Until, Up, Yet

Hitherto Quotations

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
Abraham Lincoln

It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.
Douglas Adams

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.
David Hume

The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.
Simone Weil

Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting institutions.
Ibrahim Babangida

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.
Milan Kundera

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.
Thomas Malthus

Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.
Karen Horney

I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.
David Herbert Lawrence

The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Hitherto Translations

hitherto in German is bisher
hitherto in Hungarian is ezideig, eddig
hitherto in Latin is hactenus
hitherto in Norwegian is hittil
hitherto in Swedish is hittills

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