English

Adverb

hitherward ‎(not comparable)

1. (archaic) Toward this place
   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, ch. IV, Happy

     Happiness, unhappiness: all that was but the wages thou hadst; thou hast spent all that, in sustaining thyself hitherward; not a coin of it remains with thee, it is all spent, eaten: and now thy work, where is thy work?

See also

• hither
• hitherwards
• thitherward