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advancement|ædˈvɑːnsmənt, -æ-|
Forms: 3–6 avaunce-; 4–6 avance-; 6 avaunse-, advaunce-; 6– advancement.
[a. Fr. avancement, f. avancer: see advance and -ment.]
The action or fact of advancing.
1. The raising of any one to a higher rank or position; promotion, preferment.
1297R. Glouc. 312 He ȝef hym such auauncement as he wolde. 1330R. Brunne Chron. 103 On oþer wise he salle haf auancement. 1413Lydg. Pylgr. Sowle iv. xxxiii. (1483) 82 They coueyte nought to be neyhe the kyng for no corrupte cause ne hope of auauncement. 1599Thynne Animadv. (1865) 24 You seme to attribute the advancemente of the Pooles to William de la poole. 1602Shakes. Ham. iii. ii. 62 Nay, do not thinke I flatter: For what aduancement may I hope from thee? 1660Milton Free Commw. 449 The Civil Rights and Advancements of every Person according to his Merit. 1700Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) IV. 661 Mr. Ryley's advancement to the excise. 1853Thackeray Eng. Hum. 3 His hopes of advancement in England failing, Swift returned to Ireland.
2. Law. The promotion of children in life, especially by the application beforehand of property or money to which they are prospectively entitled under a settlement or will; also the property so applied.
1411Sir T. Langeforde in E.E. Wills (1883) 17 Þe Silver þere-of spendyd to þe avauncement of lucie, my dowter. 1574tr. Littleton, Tenures 55 b, Shee shall have nothing in the remenaunt for that..she is sufficientlye advaunced to whiche advauncement shee agreeth. a1626Bacon (J.) The jointure or advancement of the lady, was the third part of the principality of Wales. 1768Blackstone Comm. II. 517 But if the estates so given them, by way of advancement, are not quite equivalent to the other shares, the children so advanced shall now have so much as will make them equal.
†3. Extolment, lauding; vaunting. Obs.
1330R. Brunne Chron. 196 What tyme or whan I mad auancement with þe alone to fight. 1564Becon Gen. Pref. to Wks. (1843) 16 To seek the glory of God, the avancement of his blessed name. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 213 Thus is it also esteemed no small advancement unto this number [7] that the Genealogy of our Saviour is summed up by 14. that is, this number doubled.
4. The helping forward of anything in process toward completion or perfection; furtherance, promotion; improvement.
1551Robinson tr. More's Utopia 13 For the auauncement and commoditie of the publique wealth. 1589Fletewood in Ellis Orig. Lett. i. 229 III. 31 As touching the avaunsement of Religion. 1605Bacon (title) Twoo Bookes of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning. 1658Bramhall Consecr. Bps. xi. 234 Ceremonies are advancements of Order, decency, modesty. 1810Horsley Sermons I. x. (R.) The joint advancement of the virtue and the happiness of the people.
†5. A going forward. lit. and fig. Obs. See advance 1, 2.
c1730Swift (J.) This refinement makes daily advancements, and, I hope, in time will raise our language to the utmost perfection. 1817Jas. Mill Brit. India II. v. iv. 450 They retired upon the brisk advancement of the grenadiers. 1825McCulloch Pol. Econ. i. 10 The advancement of nations in civilization.
6. Advancing or advanced condition.
1793Smeaton Edystone Lightho. §271 [I] gave an account of the advancement of our works. 1868Hawthorne Amer. Note-Bks. (1879) II. 139 We have water-melons in good advancement.
†7. The advancing or putting forward of a statement or assertion. Obs.
1532Thynne Ded. Chaucer in Animadv. (1865) App. 25 Very remysse in the settyng forthe or avancement..of the histories therof.
†8. The advancing or paying beforehand of money; payment in advance. Obs. See advance n. 8.
1649Evelyn Mem. (1857) III. 47 The Common Council require double security..of this last advancement. |