different between hitherward vs hither

English

Alternative forms

• hitherwards

Etymology

hither +? -ward

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
• thitherward
• whitherward

English

Etymology

From Old English hider, from Proto-Germanic *hidrê. Cognate with Latin citer.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h?ð?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?h?ð?/

• Rhymes: -?ð?(r)

Adverb

hither (not comparable)

1. (literary or archaic) To this place, to here.
2. over here

Usage notes

• Compare to the pronominal adverb "hereto" which follows the pattern of "preposition + what" or "preposition + which".

Antonyms

• hence

Derived terms

Related terms

• thither
• whither
• hither and thither

Translations

Adjective

hither (not comparable)

1. (archaic) On this side; the nearer.

   Synonym: (literary) citerior

   • 1954, The essential Not-self could be perceived very clearly in things and in living creatures on the hither side of good and evil. — Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception (Chatto & Windus 1954, p. 30)

Derived terms

• Hither Green

Translations

See also