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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
thither
adv
  1. to or toward that place; away from the speaker; "go there around noon!"
    Synonym(s): there, thither
    Antonym(s): here, hither
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Thither \Thith"er\, adv. [OE. thider, AS. [edh]ider; akin to E.
      that; cf. Icel. [thorn]a[edh]ra there, Goth.
      [thorn]a[thorn]r[d3] thence. See {That}, and {The}.]
      1. To that place; -- opposed to {hither}.
  
                     This city is near; . . . O, let me escape thither.
                                                                              --Gen. xix.
                                                                              20.
  
                     Where I am, thither ye can not come.   --John vii.
                                                                              34.
  
      2. To that point, end, or result; as, the argument tended
            thither.
  
      {Hither and thither}, to this place and to that; one way and
            another.
  
      Syn: There.
  
      Usage: {Thither}, {There}. Thither properly denotes motion
                  toward a place; there denotes rest in a place; as, I
                  am going thither, and shall meet you there. But
                  thither has now become obsolete, except in poetry, or
                  a style purposely conformed to the past, and there is
                  now used in both senses; as, I shall go there
                  to-morrow; we shall go there together.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Thither \Thith"er\, a.
      1. Being on the farther side from the person speaking;
            farther; -- a correlative of hither; as, on the thither
            side of the water. --W. D. Howells.
  
      2. Applied to time: On the thither side of, older than; of
            more years than. See {Hither}, a. --Huxley.
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