John C. Calhoun

Let a durable and firm peace be established and this government be confined rigidly to the few great objects for which it was instituted, leaving the States to contend in generous rivalry to develop, by the arts of peace, their respective resources, and a scene of prosperity and happiness would follow, heretofore unequaled on the globe.

American Statesman

Rosemary Mahoney

One of the many misconceptions about the blind is that they have greater hearing, sense of smell and sense of touch than sighted people. This is not strictly true. Their blindness simply forces them to recognize gifts they always had but had heretofore largely ignored.

American Writer

George McGovern

When you start one of these programs, school lunch programs, in a country that heretofore had nothing of that kind, immediately school enrollment jumps dramatically. Girls and boys get to the classroom with the promise of a good meal once a day.

American Politician

Josiah Strong

Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have poured their surplus populations.

American Clergyman

James Madison

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.

American President

James Forrestal

Moreover, the accomplishment of Russia's aims has been greatly simplified by the fact that we have heretofore offered the world no practical antidote for the Russian poison.

American Public Servant

Franz Boas

The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science.

American Scientist

Thomas Malory

For as well as I have loved thee heretofore, mine heart will not serve now to see thee; for through thee and me is the flower of kings and knights destroyed.

English Author

John Ruskin

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

English Writer

Gustav Krupp

We are all proud of having thus contributed to the heretofore magnificent successes of our army.

German Businessman

Use heretofore when referencing events up to a specific past time, signaling a change from past to present.

Time Reference

Heretofore often appears in historical or legal texts, giving a formal or outdated impression.

Archaic Tone

In literature, heretofore can create drama by highlighting an important change or revelation.

Literary Emphasis

 down what are we thinking you know there are thousands of aircrafts and thousands of millions of cars millions of boats how many submarines that enable us to see the other part of the planet that heretofore has not been accessible to us

What type of world do we...

 Seva got started because we wanted to apply these lessons of surveillance and epidemiology to something which nobody else was looking at as a public health blindness, which heretofore had been thought of only as a clinical disease.

Larry Brilliant: TED...

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