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Webster 1828 Edition

ppr.

Moving forward; proceeding; promoting; raising to higher rank or excellence; improving; supplying beforehand, as on loan, or as stock in trade.

advancing

advancing ‎(plural advancings)

The act of proceeding forward; an advance.
- 1839, Henry Blunt, A practical exposition of the epistles to the Seven Churches (page 52)
  […] who feels, not as even the kindest and the holiest friend on earth can feel towards our patient endurance, our shortcomings, or our slow advancings […]