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   Thither , adv. [OE. thider, AS. ðider; akin to E. that; cf. Icel. þaðra there, Goth. þaþrō thence. See That, and The.]
   To that place; -- opposed to hither.
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   This city is near; . . . O, let me escape thither.
   Gen. xix. 20.
   
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   Where I am, thither ye can not come.
   John vii. 34.
   
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   To that point, end, or result; as, the argument tended thither.
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   Hither and thither, to this place and to that; one way and another.
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   Syn. -- There.  Thither, There. Thither properly denotes motion toward a place; there denotes rest in a place; as, I am going thither, and shall meet you there. But thither has now become obsolete, except in poetry, or a style purposely conformed to the past, and there is now used in both senses; as, I shall go there to-morrow; we shall go there together.
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   Thither , a.
   Being on the farther side from the person speaking; farther; -- a correlative of hither; as, on the thither side of the water.
   W. D. Howells.
   
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   Applied to time: On the thither side of, older than; of more years than. See Hither, a.
   Huxley.
   
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