furthersome
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furthersome (comparative more furthersome, superlative most furthersome)
- (archaic) Tending to further, advance, or promote; helpful; advantageous.
- 1851, Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
- you will find it a most handy and every way furthersome , blessed and felicitous world
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- “furthersome”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.