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Webster 1913 Edition
Thither
Thith′er
,adv.
1.
To that place; – opposed to
hither
. This city is near; . . . O, let me escape
thither
. Gen. xix. 20.
Where I am,
thither
ye can not come. John vii. 34.
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
. 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; thither
, and shall meet you there
as, I shall go
. there
to-morrow; we shall go there
togetherThith′er
,Adj.
1.
Being on the farther side from the person speaking; farther; – a correlative of hither;
as, on the
. thither
side of the waterW. D. Howells.
2.
Applied to time: On the thither side of, older than; of more years than. See
Hither
, Adj.
Huxley.
Webster 1828 Edition
Thither
THITH'ER
,adv.
This city is near, O let me escape thither. Gen.19.
Where I am, thither ye cannot come. John 7.
1.
To that end or point.Hither and thither, to this place and to that; one way and another.
Definition 2024
thither
thither
English
Adverb
thither (not comparable)
- (chiefly literary or law, dated) To that place.
- Bible, Genesis xix. 20
- This city is near; […] O, let me escape thither.
- 1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist,page 9:
- […] Eleutherius, who thinking himself concern'd , because he brought me thither […]
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Episode 12, The Cyclops:
- And there rises a shining palace whose crystal glittering roof is seen by mariners who traverse the extensive sea in barks built expressly for that purpose, and thither come all herds and fatlings and firstfruits of that land for O'Connell Fitzsimon takes toll of them, a chieftain descended from chieftains.
- Bible, Genesis xix. 20
- (dated) To that point, end, or result.
- The argument tended thither.
Usage notes
- Compare to the pronominal adverb "thereto" which follows the pattern of "preposition + what" or "preposition + which".
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Translations
to that place
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