different between thitherward vs thither

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

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:thitherward.

Translations

See also

• thither
• hitherward
• whitherward

English

Etymology

From Middle English thider, from Old English þider, an alteration (probably by analogy with hider (“hither”)) of earlier þæder (“to there”), from Proto-Germanic *þadrê.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ð?ð??/, /???ð??/
• Rhymes: -?ð?(r)

Adverb

thither (not comparable)

1. (chiefly literary or law, dated) To that place.

   • Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither

   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Episode 12, The Cyclops:

     And there rises a shining palace whose crystal glittering roof is seen by mariners who traverse the extensive sea in barks built expressly for that purpose, and thither come all herds and fatlings and firstfruits of that land for O'Connell Fitzsimon takes toll of them, a chieftain descended from chieftains.

2. (dated) To that point, end, or result.

Synonyms

• there, over there, away there; yonder (archaic or dialect)

Antonyms

• thence

Derived terms

Related terms

• hither
• whither

Translations

Adjective

thither (not comparable)

1. (archaic) The farther, the other and more distant.

Synonyms

• See farther

See also