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adverb

Hither adv.

1.

To this place; used with verbs signifying motion, and implying motion toward the speaker; correlate of hence and thither; as, to come or bring hither.

2.

To this point, source, conclusion, design, etc.; in a sense not physical. "Hither we refer whatsoever belongeth unto the highest perfection of man."

Hither and thither, to and fro; backward and forward; in various directions. "Victory is like a traveller, and goeth hither and thither."

adjective

Hither adj.

1.

Being on the side next or toward the person speaking; nearer; correlate of thither and farther; as, on the hither side of a hill.

2.

Applied to time: On the hither side of, younger than; of fewer years than. "And on the hither side, or so she looked, Of twenty summers." "To the present generation, that is to say, the people a few years on the hither and thither side of thirty, the name of Charles Darwin stands alongside of those of Isaac Newton and Michael Faraday."

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Etymology of 'Hither'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hither" Quotes from Famous Books

... came hither, and spread "small bills" throughout the city. Being slightly anxious, in common with a wide circle of relatives and friends, to know where we were going to, and what was to become of us, we visited both of these eminently respectable witches ...

— The Complete Works of Artemus Ward, Part 1 • Charles Farrar Browne

... parted. Being come home, my wife and I to look over our house and consider of laying out a little money to hang our bedchamber better than it is, and so resolved to go and buy something to-morrow, and so after supper, with great joy in my heart for my coming once again hither, to bed. ...

— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys

... drew my attention to itself, whose inhabitant, Sophocles, was brought at once before my eyes: for you know how I admire, and how I delight in him: and accordingly a sort of appearance moved me, an unsubstantial one indeed, but still it did move me to a more vivid recollection of OEdipus coming hither, and asking in most melodious verse what all these places were. Then Pomponius said—I whom you all are always attacking as devoted to Epicurus, am often with Phaedrus, who is a particular friend of mine, as you know, in the gardens of Epicurus, which we passed by just this moment; but, ...

— The Academic Questions • M. T. Cicero

... Queen-Regent. He has been dispatched hither by her to see that Mademoiselle de La ...

— St. Martin's Summer • Rafael Sabatini

... knee-deep, which almost bore away the Kaffer women who crossed it. It had rained for twenty-four hours, and still the rain poured on. The fowls had collected—a melancholy crowd—in and about the wagon-house, and the solitary gander, who alone had survived the six months' want of water, walked hither and thither, printing his webbed footmarks on the mud, to have them washed out the next instant by the pelting rain, which at eleven o'clock still beat on the walls ...

— The Story of an African Farm • (AKA Ralph Iron) Olive Schreiner

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