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thither

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1. thither - Adjective

2. thither - Adverb

Meaning

To that place; -- opposed to hither.

To that point, end, or result; as, the argument tended thither.

Being on the farther side from the person speaking; farther; -- a correlative of hither; as, on the thither side of the water.

Applied to time: On the thither side of, older than; of more years than. See Hither, a.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither. Gerard Manley Hopkins

Hither and thither spins The wind-borne mirroring soul, A thousand glimpses wins, And never sees a whole. Matthew Arnold

But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Checker-board of Nights and Days Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays. Omar Khayyám

and some others that I have seen, were perhaps among the first. There is no third rising. Time sweeps all away with it so fast at this epoch. The Scottish Church has been short-lived, and was late in reaching thither. Thomas Carlyle

So long as any one can speak of divine things, enjoy and understand them, remember and desire them, he has not yet arrived in port; yet there are ways and means to guide him thither. But the creature can know nothing but what God gives him to know from day to day. Catherine of Genoa

Where the love is, thither turns the eye. Latin Proverb

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