Thither

/ˈðɪðə/ · adverb

Meaning

(chiefly literary or law, archaic) To that place..

Definitions by Sense

1. (chiefly literary or law, archaic) To that place.
2. (archaic) To that point, end, or result.
3. (archaic) The farther, the other and more distant.

Example Sentences

Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither […]

[…] Eleutherius, who thinking himself concern'd, because he brought me thither […]

[A]ll thoſe goods, and a great deal of money in ſpecie, is return'd hither for and in ballance of our ovvn manufactures and merchandizes exported thither; […]

But the road left the river again; there were certainly twistings and turnings, as the old woman had said, for at one moment it wound hither and the next thither, and at some places it was almost imperceptible.

And there rises a shining palace whose crystal glittering roof is seen by mariners who traverse the extensive sea in barks built expressly for that purpose, and thither come all herds and fatlings and firstfruits of that land for O'Connell Fitzsimon takes toll of them, a chieftain descended from chieftains.

The argument tended thither.

the thither side of life, that is to say, afterlife

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• thithermost

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