hitherward

English

Alternative forms

• hitherwards

Etymology

hither +‎ -ward

Adverb

hitherward (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Toward this place
   • 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. IV, Happy”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker):

     Happiness, unhappiness: all that was but the wages thou hadst; thou hast spent all that, in sustaining thyself hitherward; not a coin of it remains with thee, it is all spent, eaten: and now thy work, where is thy work?

See also

• hither
• thitherward
• whitherward