[ US /ˌhɪɹtəˈfɔɹ/ ]
[ UK /hˈi‍ətʊfˌɔː/ ]
ADVERB
  1. used in negative statement to describe a situation that has existed up to this point or up to the present time
    the sun isn't up yet
    So far he hasn't called
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How To Use heretofore In A Sentence

  • B-52s went all-out, bombing vital targets that were heretofore untouched, such as Haiphong Harbor.
  • B-52s went all-out, bombing vital targets that were heretofore untouched, such as Haiphong Harbor.
  • This continued until war broke out and when war broke out, General Hertzog, again with his strong feeling of South Africanism, said, "While we do not wish to be disassociated from the British Empire, while we are willing to remain with the British Empire on the same footing as heretofore, we do not see why we should declare war now, why we should not maintain neutrality and the status quo, even though Great Britain go into war. Racial Relations in the Union of South Africa
  • In all things, even till this instant, (being the utmost period of my life) I have evermore found my Fathers love most effectuall to me; but now it appeareth farre greater, then at any time heretofore: and therefore from my mouth, thou must deliver him the latest thankes that ever I shall give him, for sending me such an honourable present. The Decameron
  • But I did get to at last meet Mr. New Yorkish, whose gender I was heretofore unsure of.
  • I hope that this kind of bibliographical, aesthetic, and technical information, as well the ability to manipulate images on one's home computer to detect what has heretofore required examination of the originals, stimulates new ways to teach, research, and think about art in general and Blake in particular. Introduction
  • A pair of slipshod feet shuffled, hastily, across the bare floor of the room, as this interrogatory was put; and there issued, from a door on the right hand; first, a feeble candle: and next, the form of the same individual who has been heretofore described as labouring under the infirmity of speaking through his nose, and officiating as waiter at the public – house on Saffron Hill. Oliver Twist
  • Abbe Rochon, who discovered the double refracting power in some of the natural crystals, had lately made a telescope with the metal called platina, which, while it is as susceptible of as perfect a polish as the metal heretofore used for the specula of telescopes, is insusceptible of rust, as gold and silver are. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1
  • The Mississippi civil rights law, passed in 1865, contained the standard language: “All freedmen, free Negroes and mulattoes, who do now and have heretofore lived and cohabited together as husband and wife shall be taken and held in law as legally married.” A Renegade History of the United States
  • they had not done any work theretofore
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