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Meaning of thitherward | Babel Free

Adverb CEFR C1
ˈðɪðəwəd

Definitions

Toward that place.

archaic, not-comparable

Equivalents

Examples

“No more he spake, / But thitherward forthright his ready way did make.”
“They saw a maid who thitherward did run, / To catch her sparrow which from her did swerve.”

The New Arcadia

“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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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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