Hitherto vs Whenceforth - What's the difference?
hitherto | whenceforth |
(formal, or, legal) Up to this or that time.
* 1830 , Anna Maria Porter, The Barony (volume 3, page 460)
(formal) From which place, time, or point forth; forth from which; onward from which.
(formal, interrogative) Forth from what place, time, or point; onward from what place, time, or point.
As adverbs the difference between hitherto and whenceforth
is that hitherto is (formal|or|legal) up to this or that time while whenceforth is (formal) from which place, time, or point forth; forth from which; onward from which.hitherto
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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
whenceforth
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Adverb
(-)- With great reluctance, he was introduced to pomegranates, whenceforth he refused any other fruit.
- Whenceforth ought we to maintain radio-silence?