Earlier vs Hitherto - What's the difference?
earlier | hitherto |
(early)
occurring previously
(early)
previously; before now; sooner
(formal, or, legal) Up to this or that time.
* 1830 , Anna Maria Porter, The Barony (volume 3, page 460)
As adverbs the difference between earlier and hitherto
is that earlier is (early) while hitherto is (formal|or|legal) up to this or that time .As an adjective earlier
is (early).earlier
English
Adjective
(head)- I shall be late because I missed the earlier train.
Adverb
(head)- I shall be late because I didn't start earlier .
hitherto
English
Adverb
(-)- The exhaustless conjecturings of that evening's full conversation, made such of the small party, as had hitherto been strangers, well acquainted with each other's turn of mind