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Definition of theretofore in English: theretoforeadverb ðɛːtuːˈfɔːˈðɛrdəˌfɔr archaic, formal Before that time. 〈古或正式〉直到那时；在那之前 the constraints that the courts had theretofore imposed upon themselves Example sentencesExamples - French, theretofore regarded as a debased form of Latin, became the official language in 1539, in the reign of François I.
- The KansasNebraska Act and the Fugitive Slave Law were very unpopular in Massachusetts, even among many manufacturers who had theretofore supported the Whig Party.
- Seemingly this was a company which had retained earnings, no doubt earnings which it had not theretofore distributed by way of dividends and which therefore it may be supposed it had, in effect, reinvested in its business.
- Like the asteroids, hundreds more objects were later discovered in the outer solar system, with orbits similar to that of Pluto, signaling the existence of a theretofore uncharted reservoir called the Kuiper belt.
- Much of the expansion of Perseus' influence was at the expense of Eumenes II of Pergamum, widely and correctly perceived theretofore as a supporter of Rome.
- I was there at the right time and saw some connections between sports and selling products that theretofore hadn't been seen.
- But he also felt that regulation and government-orchestrated ‘cooperation’ within industry was needed to a theretofore unprecedented extent.
- It was a business book from the late 1980s built around an exceptional and theretofore little-understood premise: that most people who start a business aren't entrepreneurs.
- He began where others left off, and thus saved the many thousands of dollars that it had theretofore been customary to spend in building and fitting expensive engines to machines which were uncontrollable when tried.
- Suddenly the home team, who had scored only two points theretofore, freed themselves from the lethargy that has been shackling them for the past month and started to express themselves.
- Riyadh's importance was vastly enhanced in 1979, when Ayatollah Khomeini toppled the Shah of Iran, theretofore Washington's chief ally in the Persian Gulf.
- It was suggested that when a statute is passed empowering the Crown to do a certain thing which it might theretofore have done by virtue of its prerogative, the prerogative is merged in the statute.
- When the archforger Hans van Meegeren undertook to hoodwink the experts by painting what they accepted as a theretofore unknown Vermeer, his motives were more devious than those of the ordinary counterfeiter.
- Ader's craft was perhaps the smallest theretofore used in such an attempt, and both art and extreme sport figured in his planned voyage.
- By teaming up with the retail giant, she was able to extend her brand into areas theretofore unavailable to her.
- It is more accurate to say that Houston is a partially planned city in which successive episodes of rapid expansion have outstripped whatever planning process might theretofore have been achieved.
Definition of theretofore in US English: theretoforeadverbˈT͟Herdəˌfôrˈðɛrdəˌfɔr formal, archaic Before that time. 〈古或正式〉直到那时；在那之前 the constraints that the courts had theretofore imposed upon themselves Example sentencesExamples - But he also felt that regulation and government-orchestrated ‘cooperation’ within industry was needed to a theretofore unprecedented extent.
- It was suggested that when a statute is passed empowering the Crown to do a certain thing which it might theretofore have done by virtue of its prerogative, the prerogative is merged in the statute.
- Much of the expansion of Perseus' influence was at the expense of Eumenes II of Pergamum, widely and correctly perceived theretofore as a supporter of Rome.
- The KansasNebraska Act and the Fugitive Slave Law were very unpopular in Massachusetts, even among many manufacturers who had theretofore supported the Whig Party.
- Ader's craft was perhaps the smallest theretofore used in such an attempt, and both art and extreme sport figured in his planned voyage.
- Riyadh's importance was vastly enhanced in 1979, when Ayatollah Khomeini toppled the Shah of Iran, theretofore Washington's chief ally in the Persian Gulf.
- I was there at the right time and saw some connections between sports and selling products that theretofore hadn't been seen.
- When the archforger Hans van Meegeren undertook to hoodwink the experts by painting what they accepted as a theretofore unknown Vermeer, his motives were more devious than those of the ordinary counterfeiter.
- It is more accurate to say that Houston is a partially planned city in which successive episodes of rapid expansion have outstripped whatever planning process might theretofore have been achieved.
- He began where others left off, and thus saved the many thousands of dollars that it had theretofore been customary to spend in building and fitting expensive engines to machines which were uncontrollable when tried.
- Suddenly the home team, who had scored only two points theretofore, freed themselves from the lethargy that has been shackling them for the past month and started to express themselves.
- French, theretofore regarded as a debased form of Latin, became the official language in 1539, in the reign of François I.
- Like the asteroids, hundreds more objects were later discovered in the outer solar system, with orbits similar to that of Pluto, signaling the existence of a theretofore uncharted reservoir called the Kuiper belt.
- By teaming up with the retail giant, she was able to extend her brand into areas theretofore unavailable to her.
- It was a business book from the late 1980s built around an exceptional and theretofore little-understood premise: that most people who start a business aren't entrepreneurs.
- Seemingly this was a company which had retained earnings, no doubt earnings which it had not theretofore distributed by way of dividends and which therefore it may be supposed it had, in effect, reinvested in its business.
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