What does "thither" mean?
Thither: Where I am, thither ye can not come. John vii.
Additional senses
- 2.2. To that point, end, or result; as, the argument tended thither. Hither and thither, to this place and to that; one way and another. 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.
- 3.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.
- 4.Applied to time: On the thither side of, older than; of more years than. See Hither, a. Huxley.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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