thither

[Thith·er]

Applied to time: On the thither side of, older than; of more years than. See Hither, a.

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To that place; -- opposed to hither.

Adverb
to or toward that place; away from the speaker; "go there around noon!"


adv.
To that place; -- opposed to hither.

adv.
To that point, end, or result; as, the argument tended thither.

a.
Being on the farther side from the person speaking; farther; -- a correlative of hither; as, on the thither side of the water.

a.
Applied to time: On the thither side of, older than; of more years than. See Hither, a.


Thither

Thith"er , adv. [OE. thider, AS. &edh;ider; akin to E. that; cf. Icel. þa&edh;ra there, Goth. þaþr'd3 thence. See That, and The.] 1. To that place; -- opposed to hither.
This city is near; . . . O, let me escape thither.
Where I am, thither ye can not come.
2. To that point, end, or result; as, the argument tended thither. Hither and thither, to this place and to that; one way and another. Syn. -- There. Thither, There. Thither properly denotes motion toward a place; there denotes rest in a place; as, I am going thither, and shall meet you there. But thither has now become obsolete, except in poetry, or a style purposely conformed to the past, and there is now used in both senses; as, I shall go there to-morrow; we shall go there together.

Thither

Thith"er , a. 1. Being on the farther side from the person speaking; farther; -- a correlative of hither; as, on the thither side of the water. W. D. Howells. 2. Applied to time: On the thither side of, older than; of more years than. See Hither, a. Huxley.

To that place; -- opposed to hither.

Being on the farther side from the person speaking; farther; -- a correlative of hither; as, on the thither side of the water.

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Usage Examples

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.

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