† hithertowardhithertowardsadv.
Obsolete or dialect.
=hitherto adv. and adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > [adverb] > yet, still, or hitherto
yetOE
hithertoa1225
hitherward1297
hithera1400
hithertilla1400
hithertowarda1400
hitherwardsc1400
as yetc1405
as yet1484
hitherunto1505
hereto1559
until the (also this) present1600
heretobefore1667
up to the present1826
a1400–50 Alexander 3517 As I ȝit haue hediretoward heried all my faes.
1483 Cath. Angl. 185/2 Hydirtoward..hucusque.
1514 in T. Burton & J. Raine Hemingbrough 381 The custume..of our Monasterie hethertowardis usyd.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Hithertoward, towards this time, or place.
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