Thereto vs Theretofore - What's the difference?
thereto | theretofore |
(archaic, quaint) To that.
* c. 1430' (reprinted '''1888 ), Thomas Austin, ed., ''Two Fifteenth-century Cookery-books. Harleian ms. 279 (ab. 1430), & Harl. ms. 4016 (ab. 1450), with Extracts from Ashmole ms. 1429, Laud ms. 553, & Douce ms. 55 [Early English Text Society, Original Series; 91], London:
(archaic, quaint, or, poetic) To it.
Until that time.
Before that.
As adverbs the difference between thereto and theretofore
is that thereto is (archaic|quaint) to that while theretofore is until that time.thereto
English
Adverb
(-)- I require the operating manual thereto .
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- A man who allows wild passion to arise within, himself burns his heart, then after burning adds the wind that thereto which ignites the fire again, or not, as the case may be. —Jack Kerouac