Synonyms for hither
ˈhɪð ərhith·er

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1. here, hitheradverb

   to this place (especially toward the speaker)

   "come here, please"

   Synonyms:
   here

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1. hitheradjective

   Synonyms:
   to this place

2. hitheradjective

   Synonyms:
   nearest

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1. Alexander Pope:

   Hither the heroes and nymphs resort,To taste awhile the pleasures of a courtIn various talk th'instuctive hours they past,Who gave the ball, or paid the visit lastOne speaks the glory of the British Queen,And one describes a charming Indian screenlA third interprets motions, looks and eyesAt every word a reputation dies.

2. Michel de Montaigne:

   So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination. ..And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do no bring forth in the agitation.

3. Thomas Paine:

   This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they fled, not from the tender embraces of the mother, but from the cruelty of the monster; and it is so far true of England, that the same tyranny which drove the first emigrants from home, pursues their descendants still.

4. Abraham Harold Maslow:

   Become aware of internal, subjective subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc., with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hither unconscious and uncontrollable processes

5. Thomas Jefferson:

   He [King George III] has erected a multitude of New Offices and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.