Hitherto – Adverb
Definition: Until now, before this time.
Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hitherto
Found in: “Professions For Women” by Virginia Woolf
Quote: “You have won rooms of your own in the house hitherto exclusively owned by men”.
Considering winning rooms being used as a metaphor of accomplishing something as a woman where until that point the entire house belonged completely to men, which seemed like a metaphor for male dominant society.
