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more distant

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  • more distant

more

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remote

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further from

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  • less like
  • more unlike
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Synonyms for further

being an addition

to cause to move forward or upward, as toward a goal

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promote the growth of

more distant in especially degree

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to or at a greater extent or degree or a more advanced stage ('further' is used more often than 'farther' in this abstract sense)

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to or at a greater distance in time or space ('farther' is used more frequently than 'further' in this physical sense)

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While Stoker did not invent the vampire single-handedly, his Dracula would become immensely influential, "the father or furtherer of a new order of beings," as Van Helsing puts it (263).
< prdynt"l>frayenidar"Kawad the furtherer." which is also what should be read instead of < pl'knyt'l> listed in the glossary (see the discussion p.
The master-narrator, Prospero, confronts the wrongdoer, Alonso, with the story that exposes his cruelty ("Most cruelly / Didst thou, Alonso, use me and my daughter"), and the complicity of his brother, Antonio ("Thy brother was a furtherer in the act") (5.1.
Odysseus in his desire to be a Somebody sacrifices not only the "No One" of mind; to establish the new harsh justice, to reestablish rule which can no longer be on the grounds of the natural right by which he somehow took over the rule from his father, he is also forced to be the messenger of the new piety, the furtherer of faith in things unseen, all the more terrifying for being unseen.