Furtherance

//ˈfɜːðəɹəns// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of furthering or helping forward; assistance towards something desired. countable, uncountable

    "Though so profound a double-dealer, I was in no sense a hypocrite; both sides of me were in dead earnest; I was no more myself when I laid aside restraint and plunged in shame, than when I laboured, in the eye of day, at the furtherance of knowledge or the relief of sorrow and suffering."

  2. 2
    the advancement of some enterprise wordnet
  3. 3
    encouragement of the progress or growth or acceptance of something wordnet

Etymology

From further + -ance.

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