désormais

See also: desormais

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French desormais. By surface analysis, dès +‎ or +‎ mais. Compare Italian ormai.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de.zɔʁ.mɛ/

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Adverb

désormais

1. henceforth, from now on

   Synonyms: dorénavant, à partir de maintenant

   • 1983, Renata Fritsch-Bournazel, André Brigot, Jim Cloos, Les Allemands au cœur de l’Europe:

     Si dans le passé l’idéologie soviétique opposait l’U.R.S.S. aux nations capitalistes, Staline substitue désormais les solidarités anti-hitlériennes aux solidarités de classe.

     If past Soviet ideology opposed the USSR to the capitalist nations, from now on, Stalin substitutes class solidarity with solidarity in opposition to Hitler.

Further reading

• “désormais”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012