Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Nearest to this place or side.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Nearest in this direction.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Nearest on this side.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective archaic Nearest to this side.

Etymologies

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hither +‎ -most

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Examples

  • On the hithermost part of Orenoque, as at Toparimaca and Winicapora, those are of a nation called Nepoios, and are the followers of Carapana, lord of Emeria.

    The Discovery of Guiana. Paras. 50-102 1909

  • In 1583 a committee from the Muscovy merchants drew up a set of resolutions concerning a conference with M. Carlile upon his "intended discoverie and attempt into the hithermost parts of America,"

    The Records of the Virginia Company of London 1906

  • In the evening walked alone down to the lake after sunset and saw the solemn coloring of night draw on, the last gleam of sunshine fading away on the hilltops, the deep serene of the waters, and the long shadows of the mountains thrown across them till they nearly touched the hithermost shore.

    A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886

  • Finally he laid a plank lengthwise upon the hithermost rungs, and advanced to the end of it; then another plank; then a third: and he stood in the grounds of Ventirose.

    The Cardinal's Snuff-Box Henry Harland 1883

  • Lightness and grace are the painter's great qualities, marking the hithermost limit of unconscious elegance, after which "style" and science and the wisdom of the serpent set in.

    Italian Hours Henry James 1879

  • That upreared at its hithermost ending a builded burg of man;

    The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865

  • That upreared at its hithermost ending a builded burg of man;

    The Story of Sigurd the Volsung William Morris 1865

  • In those remote times there were few buildings intervening between Duchess street and the water front, and those few were not very pretentious; so that when the atmosphere was free from fog you could trace from the windows of the upper story the entire hithermost shore of the peninsula which has since become The

    The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales John Charles Dent 1864

  • On the hithermost part of Orenoque, as at Toparimaca and Winicapora, those are of a nation called Nepoios, and are the followers of Carapana, lord of Emeria.

    The Discovery of Guiana Walter Raleigh 1586

  • But who shall looke into the qualitie of this voyage, being directed to the latitude of fortie degrees or thereaboutes, of that hithermost part of

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584

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