6 sentences with 'hitherto'

Example sentences and phrases with the word hitherto and other words derived from it.

« The scientist had discovered that what allopathy had hitherto regarded as symptoms of disease were in fact manifestations of the body's resistance to the ailment that afflicted it. »
« It was the Arab army that finally conquered Persia in 637 (although it took until 650 for all Persian resistance to be defeated), Rome's hitherto unconquered adversary. »
« From about 850 CE, Vikings began to settle in the lands they raided, especially in England, Scotland, the hitherto uninhabited island of Iceland and part of France. »
« Under Sultan Selim I ("The Grim", r. 1512 - 1520), Ottoman forces conquered Egypt from the Mamluk Turks and took over the rule and supervision of the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina, hitherto under Mamluk control. »
« In the mid-nineteenth century, the word socialism came to be used more broadly to describe several different movements that had hitherto been considered in isolation. Their common factor was the idea that material goods should be held in common and that producers should keep the fruits of their labour, all in the name of a better, happier, healthier community and, perhaps, a nation. »
« Evidence that our ancestors were not as elementary as we have hitherto assumed abounds and is - contradictorily - supported by "conservative science", as archaeologist Wilhelm Konig defined it as early as 1938. »
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