thither

Etymology

From Middle English thider, from Old English þider, an alteration (probably by analogy with hider (“hither”)) of earlier þæder (“to there”), from Proto-Germanic *þadrê.

adv

  1. (chiefly literary or law, archaic) To that place.
  2. (archaic) To that point, end, or result.
    The argument tended thither.

adj

  1. (archaic) The farther, the other and more distant.
    the thither side of life, that is to say, afterlife

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