hither
adverb
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Pronunciation: /ˈhɪðə/ / /ˈhɪðɚ/
adj
Etymology: From Old English hider, from Proto-Germanic *hidrê. Cognate with Latin citer.
- On this side; the nearer.
“The essential Not-self could be perceived very clearly in things and in living creatures on the hither side of good and evil.”
adv
Etymology: From Old English hider, from Proto-Germanic *hidrê. Cognate with Latin citer.
- To this place, to here.
“He went hither and thither.”
“SATURNINUS: Go fetch them hither to us presently. TITUS: Why, there they are, both baked in that pie, Whereof their mother daintily hath fed, Eating the flesh that she herself hath bred.”
- over here
verb
Etymology: From Old English hider, from Proto-Germanic *hidrê. Cognate with Latin citer.
- only used in the phrase hither and thither