thitherward

English

Alternative forms

• thitherwards

Etymology

From thither +‎ -ward.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈðɪðəwəd/

Adverb

thitherward (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Toward that place.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     No more he spake, / But thitherward forthright his ready way did make.

   • a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:

     They saw a maid who thitherward did run, / To catch her sparrow which from her did swerve.

   • 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XLIV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 263:

     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.

Quotations

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Translations

Translations

• Swedish: ditåt (sv)

See also

• thither
• hitherward
• whitherward