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hitherward

adv

Etymology

From hither + -ward.

  1. derived from *hidrê✻
  2. derived from hider
  3. suffixed as hitherward — “hither + ward”

Definitions

  1. Toward this place

    • Happiness, unhappiness: all that was but the wages thou hadst; thou hast spent all that, in sustaining thyself hitherward; not a coin of it remains with thee, it is all spent, eaten: and now thy work, where is thy work?

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hitherward. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA