Hitherward
adv
adv ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Adverb
- 1 Toward this place archaic, not-comparable
"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?"
Example
More examples"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?"
Etymology
From hither + -ward.
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