FURTHERANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does furtherance mean? 

• FURTHERANCE (noun)
  The noun FURTHERANCE has 2 senses:

1. encouragement of the progress or growth or acceptance of something

2. the advancement of some enterprise

  Familiarity information: FURTHERANCE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FURTHERANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Encouragement of the progress or growth or acceptance of something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

advancement; furtherance; promotion

Hypernyms ("furtherance" is a kind of...):

encouragement (the expression of approval and support)

Derivation:

further (promote the growth of)

further (contribute to the progress or growth of)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The advancement of some enterprise

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

forwarding; furtherance; promotion

Context example:

his experience in marketing resulted in the forwarding of his career

Hypernyms ("furtherance" is a kind of...):

advancement; progress (gradual improvement or growth or development)

 Context examples 

The act of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort.

(Assistance, NCI Thesaurus)

I was easily led by the sympathy which he evinced to use the language of my heart, to give utterance to the burning ardour of my soul and to say, with all the fervour that warmed me, how gladly I would sacrifice my fortune, my existence, my every hope, to the furtherance of my enterprise.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

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.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Well, I feigned courtship of Miss Ingram, because I wished to render you as madly in love with me as I was with you; and I knew jealousy would be the best ally I could call in for the furtherance of that end.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)