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  1. transitive verb To cause to move forward: advance a chess piece.
  2. transitive verb To put forward; propose or suggest: advanced a novel theory during the seminar.
  3. transitive verb To aid the growth or progress of: advanced the cause of freedom.
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  • When the Artillery had joined the main force, the advance was again begun. —  Sir John French
  • General McClellan had therein the unmistakable evidence of his opponent's intentions, and from that moment his advance was as rapid as before it had been deliberate. —  A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee
  • Easton asked, after expressing his deep satisfaction that the advance was about to begin Only what we can carry ourselves on our camels, and the weight is limited to forty pounds, which is abundant even for sybarites like you guardsmen. —  The Dash for Khartoum A Tale of Nile Expedition
  • This Dargai hill must not be confused with the hill, of the same name, at which fierce fighting took place in the expedition to Chitral, two years before At last the welcome news came that the advance was about to take place. —  Through Three Campaigns A Story of Chitral, Tirah and Ashanti
  • To us Infantry this advance was a sort of holiday from the real war. —  The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
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  1. Middle English avauncen, from Old French avauncer, from Vulgar Latin *abantiāre, from Latin abante, from before : ab-, ab- + ante, before; see ant- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Earlier advaunce, avaunce, from Middle English avauncen, avaunsen, avancen, avansen, from Old French avancer, avancier, later avancer, “to forward, set forward, further, put on; also, to hasten; and to shorten or cut off by haste; also, to advance, prefer, promote” (Cotgrave), modern F. avancer = Provencal Spanish avanzar = Portuguese avançar = Italian avanzare, from Middle Latin *abanteare, from abante, away before, later Italian Spanish Portuguese avante, Provencal Old French F. avant, before: see avant, avaunt, and van. The prefix is thus historically av- for orig. ab-; the spelling adv-, now established in this word and advantage, is due to a forced ‘restoration’ of a- taken as a reduced form of ad-: see a- and a-.
  2. =F. avance; from the verb.
 

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