furtherance

From further + -ance.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfɜːðəɹəns/, /ˈfɜːðɹəns/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfɝðɚəns/

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furtherance (countable and uncountable, plural furtherances)

1. The act of furthering or helping forward; assistance towards something desired.

   Synonyms: promotion, advancement

   • 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:

     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.

• in the furtherance of justice