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hitherward

hitherward adverb: toward this place.

Adverb

hitherward (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Toward this place
    • 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?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)

Forms of hitherward

alternative formhitherwards

Origin of hitherward

From hither + -ward.

Questions about hitherward

What does hitherward mean?
Hitherward means toward this place.
What part of speech is hitherward?
Hitherward is an adverb.

Words near hitherward in the dictionary

  1. hithers and thithers
  2. hitherside
  3. hitherto
  4. hithertofore
  5. hitherunto
  6. hitherward
  7. hitherwards
  8. hithes
  9. hitjob
  10. hitjobs
  11. HITL

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