thither

«thither» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: there, to that place — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

there, to that place

part of speech

adverb

meaning for a pupil

To that place. tree →

how it differs from today

Old-fashioned; today we say "there" or "to that place."

examples

• And Abraham said unto him: 'Beware thou that thou bring not my son back thither. (Torah GEN.24.6, JPS 1917) tree →
• Thither he went without speaking a word. (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) tree →
• Get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.' (Torah GEN.42.2, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

thither

tests

manual 10.1; corpora 174 (Torah 24, tales 150, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 19.7 (Torah alone 56.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

In the corpora

• And Abraham said unto him: 'Beware thou that thou bring not my son back thither.
• Get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.'
• Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying: Thou also shalt not go in thither;
• So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men; and they fled before the men of Ai.
• So they did unto all the Israelites that came thither in Shiloh.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «thither» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.