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adverb

Thither adv.

1.

To that place; opposed to hither. "This city is near;... O, let me escape thither." "Where I am, thither ye can not come."

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.

Synonyms: There. 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.

adjective

Thither adj.

1.

Being on the farther side from the person speaking; farther; a correlative of hither; as, on the thither side of the water.

2.

Applied to time: On the thither side of, older than; of more years than. See Hither, a.

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Etymology of 'Thither'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Thither" Quotes from Famous Books

... Down this slope they followed the rope with their eyes and then discovered it was attached to a large and heavy barrel that could almost be called a hogshead, evidently something which had been used as a crate to convey a portion of the previous owner of the cabin's crockery ware thither when he moved ...

— At Whispering Pine Lodge • Lawrence J. Leslie

... rivers, I could mention the rivers which originate in the torrid countries of Africa, where it never rains—and still less snows—because the intense heat always melts into air all the clouds which are borne thither by the winds. And if you chose to say that such rivers, as increase in July and August, come from the snows which melt in May and June from the sun's approach to the snows on the mountains of Scythia [Footnote 9: Scythia means ...

— The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete • Leonardo Da Vinci

... miles of the coast of Jersey at low- water mark, and this was the limit of the reservation of the Jersey oyster fishery, and it was upon this fact that the French went. It afterwards appeared that the French flag never had been hoisted on the rocks, but only on a boat which came thither for the purpose of fishing, so that the whole matter was somewhat of a storm in a teacup. It raised, however, another question. The Convention of 1839, which defined the limits of the oyster fishery between Jersey and France, also defined ...

— The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke V1 • Stephen Gwynn

... excitement, and some shells were already falling in the place. It is wonderful with what rapidity the contagion of panic spreads through a civilian population. I saw loaded vehicles leaving the town, and people were gathered in groups about the streets chattering like monkeys or rushing hither and thither with ...

— 1914 • John French, Viscount of Ypres

... they were leaving, a brichka drove up containing the two Hamers, whose faces were now quite familiar to Slimak. The colonists rushed to the vehicle with shouts and explanations, gesticulating wildly, pointing hither and thither, and talking in turns, for even in their excitement they seemed to preserve ...

— Selected Polish Tales • Various

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