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furtherance|ˈfɜːðərəns|
Forms: α. 5–7 forþ-, fortheraunce, -ans, forderance, (5 firtherance, foderance), 6 fordraunce, 7 fortherance. β. 5–7 furtheraunce, (7 -ence), 6–7 furderance, -aunce, -auns, 5– furtherance. See also fartherance.
[f. further v. + -ance.]
1. The fact or state of being furthered or helped forward; the action of helping forward; advancement, aid, assistance. Also concr. a means or source of help.
c1440York Myst. xxvi. 48 Yf þat false faytor Your fortheraunce may fang. 1494Fabyan Chron. an. 1448 (1559) II. 446 For the furtheraunce of this purpose. 1551Recorde Pathw. Knowl. ii. Pref., All suche..shall finde greate ease and furtheraunce by this simple..forme of writinge. 1606Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1814) IV. 286 For the greater forderance and better executioun of justice. 1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God i. xi. (1620) 19 The pompes of the funeralls are rather solaces to the liuing then furtherances to the dead. 1640–1Kirkcudbr. War-Comm. Min. Bk. (1855) 72 Expecting your fortherance in all. 1748F. Smith Voy. Disc. I. 89 Thinking of the many Furtherances this Voyage received from that honourable Knight. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. (1858) 4 Issuing..with every external furtherance, it is of such internal quality as to set Neglect at defiance. 1844H. H. Wilson Brit. India III. 422 In furtherance of this project, she kept her son in a state of ignorance and vice. 1875Helps Ess., Organ. Daily Life 174 Some few furtherances have been shown.
2. Coal-mining. (See quot. 1883.)
1851in Greenwell Coal-trade Terms 27. 1883 Gresley Gloss. Coal Mining, Furtherance (North), an additional sum of money paid per score to hewers, putters, &c. as an allowance in respect of inferior coal, a bad roof, a fault, &c.
Hence † ˈfurtherancer Obs. rare—1. One who gives furtherance to (anything).
1599Hayward 1st Pt. Hen. IV, 6 A dissolute and dishonest life, which findeth some followers when it findeth no furtherancers. |
