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Example sentences for "thitherto"

Lexicographically close words:
thistledown; thistles; thit; thith; thither; thitherward; thius; tho; thoat; thoats
  1. In the Fall of 1919, announcement was made by the newspapers that French investigators had discovered in the British Museum four thitherto unknown Beethoven autographs amongst manuscripts purchased by Julian Marshall.

  2. Trembling and shivering he bent double because of the pains which raged in his liver and intestines, and his feet, thitherto moderately inflated, were tremendously swollen.

  3. Thitherto he had been able to devote a large portion of the time not given to official duties to his friend.

  4. Six years later the 2d was to receive the much-desired number which had thitherto belonged to the "1st.

  5. Most permanently important, perhaps, of all Richardson's contributions, was his creation of complex characters, such as had thitherto appeared not in English novels but only in the drama.

  6. At the same time another father, who had a residence in the village of LinĂ o, notably advanced our Christian religion in places thitherto occupied by infidelity.

  7. For if we had thitherto seen the aliens fighting against the faith, from the year 1649 the very sons of the Church worked for its destruction.

  8. Thitherto she had been exclusively identified with Spain.

  9. Now thitherto the governor and most of the other officials in Cuba had received their commissions from the Admiral or Vicereine in Hispaniola, or from the Supreme Court there.

  10. At various times and places thitherto men had experimented with sugar growing and manufacture, with varying degrees of success.

  11. In the end chemistry will be active in the preparation and improvement of nourishment to a degree thitherto unknown.

  12. Thus the thitherto free peasant's estate was transformed into hired property; and this, with time, was burdened with ever more obligations.

  13. Through intercourse with the city, the rustic becomes acquainted with the world from an entirely new and more seductive side: he is seized with new ideas: he learns of the wants of civilization, thitherto unknown to him.


  14. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thitherto" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.