Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb Hither.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Toward this place; this way.
- To this time.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Toward this place; hither.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb archaic Toward this place
Etymologies
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Examples
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Songs thereof would I sing -- to all that hitherward comes would I welcome give;
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Songs thereof would I sing -- to all that hitherward comes would I welcome give;
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I am to face this leviathan Charles, who will presently swim hitherward, cleaving the deep before him.
Quentin Durward 2008
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Back, thou wretch, to meet thy brother miscreants, who are hastening hitherward.
Anne of Geierstein 2008
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“It may be,” said the Abbot, “that Foster will wait for Murray, whose purpose hitherward is but delayed for a short space.”
The Monastery 2008
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A brown sunburnt gentleman, who appears in some inaptitude for sleep to be wandering abroad rather than counting the hours on a restless pillow, strolls hitherward at this quiet time.
Bleak House 2007
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She knew the point whence the sound proceeded — the hill-top over which travellers passed on their way hitherward from Sherton
The Woodlanders 2006
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Across the intervening levels the gale races in a straight line from the fort, as if breathed out of it hitherward.
A Changed Man 2006
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At the one side of Beyrout sixteen mile, to come hitherward, is the city of Sydon.
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And sithen hitherward might no knight see her, but that he died anon.
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