English

Verb

furthering

1. present participle of further

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.