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Untill vs Hitherto - What's the difference?

untill | hitherto |

As a preposition untill

is .

As an adverb hitherto is

(formal|or|legal) up to this or that time .

untill

English

Preposition

(English prepositions)

    • 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