Previously travelling nowhere without husband (6)
I believe the answer is:
erenow
'previously' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'travelling nowhere without husband' is the wordplay.
'travelling' is an anagram indicator.
'without' suggests deleting specific letters.
'husband' becomes 'h'.
'nowhere' with 'h' taken away is 'nowere'.
'nowere' with letters rearranged gives 'ERENOW'.
(Other definitions for erenow that I've seen before include "Before this time (poet.)" , "Before the present" , "previously" , "Hitherto" , "Before this time (arch.)" .)