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adverb

Thither adv.

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.

Synonyms: 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.

adjective

Thither adj.

1.

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

2.

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

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Etymology of 'Thither'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Thither" Quotes from Famous Books

... of Italy and England in matters literary are due to the revivers of the New Learning. Italy was, and still is, the repository of all the chief MSS. of the Greek and Latin classics. Thither, therefore, went all the young Englishmen, whom the influence of Erasmus had bitten with a desire for the New Learning which was the Old Learning born anew. But in Italy itself, the New Learning had even by the early years of the sixteenth century produced its natural result of ...

— The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 • William Painter

... 3 And thither were all the flocks gathered, and they rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well's ...

— The Woman's Bible. • Elizabeth Cady Stanton

... as Italian homes, have their presepi. "Thither come the people, bearing humble gifts of chestnuts, apples, tomatoes, and the like, which they place as offerings in the hands of the figures. These are very often life-size. Mary is usually robed in blue satin, with crimson scarf ...

— Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan • Clement A. Miles

... Sanctuaries, where all Blockheads shall be made free Denizens, not to be touch'd without Profanation? I could say much more on this subject; but as I have already treated it in my ninth Satire, I shall thither refer the Reader. ...

— An Essay on Satire, Particularly on the Dunciad • Walter Harte

... the day began to dawn just as they reached the main road where it crossed the hills, whence on his journey thither Alan had his first view of Bonsa Town. Peering from the edge of the bush, they perceived a fire burning near the road and round it five or six men, who seemed to be asleep. Their first thought was to avoid them, but the Mungana, creeping ...

— The Yellow God - An Idol of Africa • H. Rider Haggard

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