"thitherward" meaning in English

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          "text": "No more he spake, / But thitherward forthright his ready way did make.",
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          "english": "The New Arcadia",
          "ref": "a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:",
          "text": "They saw a maid who thitherward did run, / To catch her sparrow which from her did swerve.",
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          "text": "The poor woman, who was well aware with such incumbrances she could do nothing with visitors of their rank, eagerly presented a letter from the castle, which had been waiting almost a week, and their horses' heads were in a few minutes turned thitherward, a boy being dispatched from the farm by a near road, to announce their arrival.",
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        "Toward that place."
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        "(archaic) Toward that place."
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          "word": "thitherwards"
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