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Hereto vs Hitherto - What's the difference?

hereto | hitherto |

As adverbs the difference between hereto and hitherto

is that hereto is to here, to this while hitherto is up to this or that time.

hereto

English

Adverb

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  • (archaic) to here, to this
  • * 1697 , Daniel Defoe, An Essay upon Projects
    • I, A. B., do solemnly swear and attest that the account hereto annexed is true and right...
  • (archaic) yet, so far
  • * 1609 , William Shakespeare, Coriolanus
    • Which the rather / We shall be bless'd to do, if he remember / A kinder value of the people than / He hath hereto priz'd them at.
  • * 1861 , Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage
    • Lords had not been frequent among her acquaintance hereto .
  • (archaic) regarding this subject

    • Usage notes

    * In current English, hereto is extremely formal and used mostly in legal contexts.

    Anagrams

    * English pronominal adverbs ----

    hitherto

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (formal, or, legal) Up to this or that time.
  • * 1830 , Anna Maria Porter, The Barony (volume 3, page 460)
    • 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

    Related terms

    * heretofore * thitherto