Thither \Thith"er\, adv. [OE. thider, AS. [eth]ider; akin to E.
that; cf. Icel. [thorn]a[eth]ra there, Goth.
[thorn]a[thorn]r[=o] 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.
Usage: 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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Thither \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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