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Oxford just throws up its hands and cries “Derivation unknown,” adding, “None of the etymological conjectures hitherto offered are compatible with the sense-history.”
The addition of this important facility shifted the center of communications in the colony, prompting authorities to transfer the capital from St. George’s to the hitherto undistinguished village of Hamilton.
The bhakti movement of the Tamils brought a new warmth to the hitherto rigid Brahmanic ritual of Hinduism.
In 1859, the Edinburgh Review excoriated another party, who are [sic] striving to debase the language by introducing the verb to wire instead of the word hitherto used, to telegraph.
This information came from the unlikely source of the normally ultraconservative London Sunday Telegraph , in which Jenny McCartney reports how a United Nations science project has discovered things are much worse than we hitherto imagined.