"hitherward" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From hither + -ward.",
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      "expansion": "hitherward (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adv"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "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):",
          "text": "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?",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "Toward this place"
      ],
      "id": "en-hitherward-en-adv-0X~HcfLa",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) Toward this place"
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "hither"
        },
        {
          "word": "thitherward"
        },
        {
          "word": "whitherward"
        }
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "hitherwards"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hitherward"
}

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  "etymology_text": "From hither + -ward.",
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      "name": "en-adv"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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    {
      "word": "hither"
    },
    {
      "word": "thitherward"
    },
    {
      "word": "whitherward"
    }
  ],
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          "ref": "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):",
          "text": "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?",
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      "glosses": [
        "Toward this place"
      ],
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        "(archaic) Toward this place"
      ],
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        "archaic",
        "not-comparable"
      ]
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "hitherwards"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hitherward"
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