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Webster 1913 Edition

adv.

To ward that place; in that direction.

They shall ask the way to Zion, with their faces

thitherward

Jer. l. 5.

adv.

[thither and ward.] Toward that place.

They shall ask the way to Zion, with their faces thitherward. Jer. 1.

thitherward ‎(not comparable)

(archaic) Toward that place.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.2:
  No more he spake, / But thitherward forthright his ready way did make.
- Sir Philip Sidney
  A maid thitherward did run, / To catch her sparrow which from her did swerve.