: being on the other and farther side : more remote
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Donna Vickroy, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2025
Leonard is forced off his father's farm in a shocking incident and wanders hither and thither, becoming a slave to gypsies, a farmworker, a sailor, a diver and a horseman.
—Dallas News, 20 Aug. 2019
In one of the film’s best running gags, the Arpels’ pet dachshund rushes hither and thither, joining the many stray dogs of the neighborhood and following them in and out of formal buildings.
—Peter Cowie, WSJ, 27 Apr. 2018
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Adverb
So many of us have spent these last few months running and thither from bad news to more bad news, from chaos to bedlam, from disbelief to shock.
—Donna Vickroy, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2025
Leonard is forced off his father's farm in a shocking incident and wanders hither and thither, becoming a slave to gypsies, a farmworker, a sailor, a diver and a horseman.
—Dallas News, 20 Aug. 2019
In one of the film’s best running gags, the Arpels’ pet dachshund rushes hither and thither, joining the many stray dogs of the neighborhood and following them in and out of formal buildings.
—Peter Cowie, WSJ, 27 Apr. 2018
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“Thither.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/thither. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.
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thither
1 of 2 adverb
thith·er
ˈthit͟h-ər 
also
ˈt͟hit͟h-
: to that place : there
I shall go thither
thither
2 of 2 adjective
: being on the other and farther side
the thither bank of a river
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