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adverb

Hither adv.

1.

To this place; used with verbs signifying motion, and implying motion toward the speaker; correlate of hence and thither; as, to come or bring hither.

2.

To this point, source, conclusion, design, etc.; in a sense not physical. "Hither we refer whatsoever belongeth unto the highest perfection of man."

Hither and thither, to and fro; backward and forward; in various directions. "Victory is like a traveller, and goeth hither and thither."

adjective

Hither adj.

1.

Being on the side next or toward the person speaking; nearer; correlate of thither and farther; as, on the hither side of a hill.

2.

Applied to time: On the hither side of, younger than; of fewer years than. "And on the hither side, or so she looked, Of twenty summers." "To the present generation, that is to say, the people a few years on the hither and thither side of thirty, the name of Charles Darwin stands alongside of those of Isaac Newton and Michael Faraday."

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"Hither" Quotes from Famous Books

... I saw a flower; And, could it thence be hither borne, I'd plant it here within my bower, And water it both eve and morn. Small water wants the stem so straight; 'Tis a love-lily stout as fate. Small water wants the root so strong: 'Tis a love-lily lasting ...

— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete - Series I, II, and III • John Symonds

... as well as to settle among them and instruct them in the arts of civilized life. This may prove to be an important step not only toward the suppression of the horrible traffic in slaves, which the united efforts of England, France, and the United States have hither to been unable to effect, but also toward the civilization of Africa, a result to which no ...

— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. • Various

... who at the beginning of the present century introduced from Germany, together with some other subtleties of thought transplanted hither not without advantage, the distinction between the Fancy and the Imagination, made much also of the cognate distinction between Wit and Humour, between that unreal and transitory mirth, which is as the crackling of thorns under the pot, and the laughter ...

— Appreciations, with an Essay on Style • Walter Horatio Pater

... just passed proved to be the last one for some time to come, and in a week the trails leading from Will's Creek to the eastward became more or less broken. The trail to Fort Bedford was likewise opened, and Sam Barringford made a journey hither and was gone ...

— On the Trail of Pontiac • Edward Stratemeyer

... this, eyelight bringing, To the roof of my lodge? It is I, hither swinging— Dodge, ...

— Two Indian Children of Long Ago • Frances Taylor

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