Definition of "until now" []

• Used in negative statement to describe a situation that has existed up to this point or up to the present time (adverb)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "However, Prussia's terrible humiliation, notwithstanding all its mournful results, first opened the way for the exercise of those energies of the country that had been until now suppressed."
• "It was as if I were a spring-wound toy, twisted for years and years until now finally I had to let go or break."
• "For those moviegoers who spot such ear-stingers, and whose recourse until now was only to mutter, with Hamlet, “The time is out of joint”: “O cursed spite, / That ever I was born to set it right.”"