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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Furtherance \Fur"ther*ance\, noun The act of furthering or helping forward; promotion; advancement; progress.
I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furthersnce and joy of faith. --Phil. i. 25.
Built of furtherance and pursuing, Not of spent deeds, but of doing. --Emerson.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
furtherance
noun
1: encouragement of the progress or growth or acceptance of something [syn: {promotion}, {advancement}]
2: the advancement of some enterprise; "his experience in marketing resulted in the forwarding of his career" [syn: {forwarding}, {promotion}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
94 Moby Thesaurus words for "furtherance": Great Leap Forward, accomplishment, advance, advancement, advancing, advocacy, advocating, aid, amelioration, amendment, amplification, ascent, assistance, backing, bettering, betterment, blossoming, boost, boosting, career, championing, championship, course, development, developmental change, elaboration, enhancement, enlargement, enrichment, eugenics, euthenics, evolution, evolutionary change, evolvement, evolving, expansion, expediting, expedition, explication, facilitation, flowering, forward motion, forwardal, forwarding, fostering, furthering, go-ahead, gradual change, growth, headway, help, helping along, improvement, lift, march, maturation, melioration, mend, mending, natural development, natural growth, nonviolent change, ongoing, onward course, passage, patronage, pickup, preferential treatment, preferment, progress, progression, progressiveness, promotion, pursuit, recovery, restoration, revival, ripening, rise, rolling, rolling on, rushing, special treatment, speeding, succor, support, travel, upbeat, uplift, upping, upswing, uptrend, upward mobility, way
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