THITHER
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Thith"er (?), adv. [OE. thider, AS. ðider; akin to E. that; cf. Icel. þaðra there, Goth. þaþr&ō; thence. See That, and The.] 1. To that place; -- opposed to hither.
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This city is near; . . . O, let me escape thither.
Gen. xix. 20.
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Where I am, thither ye can not come.
John vii. 34.
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2. To that point, end, or result; as, the argument tended thither.
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Hither and thither, to this place and to that; one way and another.
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Syn. -- 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.
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Thith"er (?), a. 1. Being on the farther side from the person speaking; farther; -- a correlative of hither; as, on the thither side of the water. W. D. Howells.
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2. Applied to time: On the thither side of, older than; of more years than. See Hither, a. Huxley.
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