Hitherto and Now

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Hitherto adverb - Up to this or that time.

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Now is an antonym for hitherto.

Now adverb - At the present time.

Usage example: that company doesn't make those toys now because they are unsafe

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Hitherto is an antonym for now.

Almost forgetting for the moment all thoughts of Moby Dick, we now gazed at the most wondrous phenomenon which the secret seas have hitherto revealed to mankind.

Source: Giant Squid
In "The Time of the Doctor", the Eleventh Doctor reveals that with the recently revealed hitherto-unknown War Doctor incarnation and the Tenth Doctor's aborted regeneration, he's now in his last incarnation and can no longer regenerate.

Source: Age Without Youth
This is so commonplace now that it is hard to believe the practice of satirising political leaders and those hitherto perceived to be our "social betters" had to begin somewhere and was in fact frowned upon - but it began here, over 50 years ago.

Source: Series / That Was The Week That Was

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