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hitherward

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

hitherward From the web:

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thitherward

English

Alternative forms

  • thitherwards

Etymology

From thither +? -ward.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?ð?ð?w?d/

Adverb

thitherward (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Toward that place.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.2:
      No more he spake, / But thitherward forthright his ready way did make.
    • They saw a maid who thitherward did run, / To catch her sparrow which from her did swerve.

Quotations

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Translations

See also

  • thither
  • hitherward
  • whitherward

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  • what does thitherward
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