thitherwardsadv.
archaic.
= thitherward adv. 1.
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the world > space > direction > [adverb] > to or towards some thing or place > to or towards that place or direction
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > [adverb] > towards that place
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c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xxxix. §5 He..tiohhode hit ðeah þiderweardes.
c1000 Ælfric Lives Saints xxiii. B. 724 Heo..ofer þa hnescan yða þæs wæteres eode swa swa heo ær dyde þyder-weardes.
a1400 Sir Beues (A.) 125 Þeder~wardes he gan gon Wiþ outen demere.
1484 in H. E. Malden Cely Papers (1900) 149 On Tewysday nexte they schall departe theder warddes.
a1593 C. Marlowe Edward II (1594) sig. K2 So now away, post thither wards amaine.
1766 B. Franklin in Philos. Trans. 1765 (Royal Soc.) 55 189 The air of the lower regions [is] flowing thitherwards.
1861 D. G. Rossetti tr. Dante Vita Nuova in Early Ital. Poets ii. 235 I had occasion to..go thitherwards where she abode.
1886 Cornhill Mag. July 43 A number of rough labouring men..strolling thitherwards.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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