furtherance

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree English further Latin -iader. Old French -ancebor. Middle English -aunce English -ance English furtherance From further + -ance.

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

   “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.”