Hither /(?)/
Hith·er
Hither
adv.
- To this place; -- used with verbs signifying motion, and implying motion toward the speaker; correlate of hence and thither; as, to come or bring hither.
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To this point, source, conclusion, design, etc.; -- in a sense not physical.
Hither we refer whatsoever belongeth unto the highest perfection of man.
Phrases & Compounds
- Hither and thither
- to and fro; backward and forward; in various directions.
Hither
a.
- Being on the side next or toward the person speaking; nearer; -- correlate of thither and farther; as, on the hither side of a hill.
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Applied to time: On the hither side of, younger than; of fewer years than.
And on the hither side, or so she looked, Of twenty summers.
To the present generation, that is to say, the people a few years on the hither and thither side of thirty, the name of Charles Darwin stands alongside of those of Isaac Newton and Michael Faraday.