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adverb
Thither  adv.  
1.
To that place; opposed to hither. "This city is near;... O, let me escape thither." "Where I am, thither ye can not come."
2.
To that point, end, or result; as, the argument tended thither.
Hither and thither, to this place and to that; one way and another.
Synonyms: 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.


adjective
Thither  adj.  
1.
Being on the farther side from the person speaking; farther; a correlative of hither; as, on the thither side of the water.
2.
Applied to time: On the thither side of, older than; of more years than. See Hither, a.





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"Thither" Quotes from Famous Books



... should write to Coke Clifton, to direct his route through Paris; that he should be there at a fixed time, to transact some pretended business for her; that Sir Arthur and you should make a journey thither on a party of pleasure, which we all knew would be agreeable to you; and that you and my brother should meet as if by accident. But it appears that Sir Arthur, when he has any favourite project in view, can scarcely forbear being communicative, not ...
— Anna St. Ives • Thomas Holcroft
... the dining-room, so thither we repaired to eat and drink while representations of Jim Clay and Jake Sorrel, senior, who had wept for the sufferings of the convicts, glowered down upon the gathering of plebeians who were half swells and the swells who ...
— Some Everyday Folk and Dawn • Miles Franklin
... Chicago arrived, having been driven over by private conveyance. Without publicly acknowledging them, Robert gave them to understand that he would meet them at the house of the constable, and upon repairing thither they were duly informed of what had taken place, and instructed as to the plans ...
— The Burglar's Fate And The Detectives • Allan Pinkerton
... which Horace's father had laid the foundation at Rome, would not have been complete without a course of study at Athens, then the capital of literature and philosophy, as Rome was of political power. Thither Horace went somewhere between the age of 17 and 20. "At Rome," he says (Epistles, II. ...
— Horace • Theodore Martin
... must be true that General Lee has surrendered." The solemnity of the remark, coupled with the certainty in the minds of the survivors, was almost amusing. The relative pointed out the temporary residence of the mother, and thither ...
— Detailed Minutiae of Soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 • Carlton McCarthy


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