furthering

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of further

noun

1. The act by which something is furthered; furtherance.

   “[…] 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.”