What does thitherward mean?
Thitherward means (archaic) Toward that place..
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/ˈðɪðəwəd/ · adverb
(archaic) Toward that place..
No more he spake, / But thitherward forthright his ready way did make.
They saw a maid who thitherward did run, / To catch her sparrow which from her did swerve.
The poor woman, who was well aware with such incumbrances she could do nothing with visitors of their rank, eagerly presented a letter from the castle, which had been waiting almost a week, and their horses' heads were in a few minutes turned thitherward, a boy being dispatched from the farm by a near road, to announce their arrival.
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Thitherward means (archaic) Toward that place..
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No more he spake, / But thitherward forthright his ready way did make.
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