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fartherance

fartherance is the obsolete form of furtherance.

Meaning of furtherance

Noun

furtherance (countable and uncountable, plural furtherances)

  1. The act of furthering or helping forward; assistance towards something desired.
    • 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.1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 107

Forms of fartherance

pluralfartherances

Questions about fartherance

What is fartherance the obsolete form of?
Fartherance is the obsolete form of furtherance.

Words near fartherance in the dictionary

  1. farther away
  2. farther flung
  3. Farther India
  4. farther-fetched
  5. farther-flung
  6. fartherance
  7. fartherances
  8. farthered
  9. fartherer
  10. fartherers
  11. farthering

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