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HITHERTO

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hitherto adverb

1. (înv.) până aici, până la punctul, în locul acesta.

2. până acum, până în prezent;

as hitherto ca (şi) până acum, ca (şi) în trecut.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Her health, and even the tranquillity of her hitherto constant spirit, had been shaken by what she had gone through.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

You have hitherto been my adopted brother—I, your adopted sister: let us continue as such: you and I had better not marry.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Crawford's feelings, I am ready to acknowledge, have hitherto been too much his guides.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

“As far as it has gone hitherto, there is no harm done,” said Mr. Allen; “and I would only advise you, my dear, not to go out with Mr. Thorpe any more.”

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

We have seen hitherto how good light all the little things have made.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Not that I imagine he can think I have been encouraging him hitherto.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

I told his majesty, that I was come according to my promise, and with the license of the emperor my master, to have the honour of seeing so mighty a monarch, and to offer him any service in my power, consistent with my duty to my own prince; not mentioning a word of my disgrace, because I had hitherto no regular information of it, and might suppose myself wholly ignorant of any such design; neither could I reasonably conceive that the emperor would discover the secret, while I was out of his power; wherein, however, it soon appeared I was deceived.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

You would rob it of its simplicity by imaginary improvement! and this dear parlour in which our acquaintance first began, and in which so many happy hours have been since spent by us together, you would degrade to the condition of a common entrance, and every body would be eager to pass through the room which has hitherto contained within itself more real accommodation and comfort than any other apartment of the handsomest dimensions in the world could possibly afford.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

If what I have hitherto said can appear to you in the form of encouragement, I know not how to express my refusal in such a way as to convince you of its being one.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

You think all existence lapses in as quiet a flow as that in which your youth has hitherto slid away.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

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