Meanings
adverbhitherward (not comparable)
alternative hitherwards
- archaicnot comparableToward 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?
1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. IV, Happy”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker)
Origin
- Englishhither
- Proto-Indo-European*wert-
- Proto-Germanic*wardaz
- Englishhitherward
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