• Furthering

    Verb

    1. Present participle of further

    Full definition of furthering

    Noun

    furthering

    (plural furtherings)
    1. The act by which something is furthered; furtherance.
      • George Eliot... the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose, with all the possible thwartings and furtherings of circumstance, all the niceties of inward balance, by which a man swims and makes his point or else is carried headlong.
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