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What's The Definition Of Thither?

\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.