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furtherer|ˈfɜːðərə(r)|
Also 5 furtherar, 6 ford-, fortherer. See also fartherer.
[f. further v. + -er1.]
One who or that which furthers or helps forward; a helper, promoter, supporter; an aid or encouragement.
1390Gower Conf. III. 111 The brighte sonne..furtherer of the daies light. c1465Eng. Chron. (Camd. 1856) 23 He was our furtherar and promoter. 1555Abp. Parker Ps. E iij, The Psalme..is a furtherer to them which go forwarde to vertue. 1594Blundevil Exerc. iii. i. i. (ed. 7) 278 Leaving to speak of the first inventers, or of the furtherers of these Sciences. 1630Lord Banians 32 Making the profits..the furtherers of ryot and excesse. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. I. 297 He was a continual favourer and furtherer of learning. 1828Landor Imag. Conv. Wks. 1846 I. 315 Ploughs and oxen are not instruments and furtherers of disobedience. 1867Sat. Rev. 26 Oct. 535/1 The fate which seems to turn men..into furtherers of a cause which they know to be evil. |