About The Word Thither
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What's The Definition Of Thither?
[adv] to or toward that place; away from the speaker; "go there around noon!"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Thither: there Related Terms | Find terms related to Thither: See Also | Thither In Webster's Dictionary \Thith"er\, adv. [OE. thider, AS. [eth]ider; akin to E.
that; cf. Icel. [thorn]a[eth]ra there, Goth.
[thorn]a[thorn]r[=o] thence. See {That}, and {The}.]
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.
Usage: {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.
\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. |
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