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• thitherwards

From Old English þiderweard, equivalent to thither +‎ -ward.

• (UK) IPA(key): /ˈðɪðəwəd/

thitherward (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Toward that place.
   • a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [_i.e._, Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:
     They saw a maid who thitherward did run, / To catch her sparrow which from her did swerve.
   • 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XLIV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 263:
     The poor woman, who was well aware with such incumbrances she could do nothing with visitors of their rank, eagerly presented a letter from the castle, which had been waiting almost a week, and their horses' heads were in a few minutes turned thitherward, a boy being dispatched from the farm by a near road, to announce their arrival.

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