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Mar. 24, 2015
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\FUR-ther-uhns\
noun
1. the act of furthering; promotion; advancement.
Quotes
If you asked me what were the best possible organisation for the Men of Letters in modern society; the arrangement of furtherance and regulation, grounded the most accurately on the actual facts of their position and of the world's position,—I should beg to say that the problem far exceeded my faculty!
-- Thomas Carlyle, “The Hero as Man of Letters,” On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History, 1840
Origin
Furtherance came to English in the 1400s from the late Middle English fortheraunce.
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