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Throughout literature, "advance" is employed with a variety of meanings that extend beyond its simple definition of moving forward. At times, it captures a literal progression—armies and travelers moving ahead or crossing obstacles, as in the military maneuvers described where forces “advance” towards their objectives ([1], [2], [3]). In other contexts it implies preparatory action, whether referring to payments made ahead of time ([4], [5], [6]) or the foreknowledge of events, as when one is warned of impending changes ([7], [8]). The term further conveys abstract progress, encapsulating intellectual or spiritual development and the establishment of new ideas ([9], [10], [11]). Thus, its varied deployment underscores both physical movement and anticipatory or metaphorical growth within literary narratives ([12], [13]).
  1. But it was only a few feet advance they sought to gain.
    — from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville
  2. Thereupon Magallanes ordered the ships ‘San Antonio’ and the ‘Concepcion’ to go in advance in order to explore the strait.
    — from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 by Antonio Pigafetta
  3. You command only my advance guard, and have no right to arrange an armistice without my order.
    — from War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy
  4. He shewed me a very nice one at a Louis a month, and I paid in advance.
    — from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova
  5. One woman, when I wrote—a tactful letter, you know—asking her to explain her social position to me, replied that she would pay the rent in advance.
    — from A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
  6. She gave me the address, and I went there on the spot, and having found everything to my liking I paid a month in advance and the thing was done.
    — from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova
  7. My own opinion is that we should begin our sovereignty by promising to all our acquaintances in advance a whole year's amnesty for sins of every kind.
    — from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
  8. Young people should know this truth in advance.
    — from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James
  9. I have appealed to our own experience for the truth of what I advance on this subject.
    — from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton and John Jay and James Madison
  10. 1150 As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
    — from Life and LiteratureOver two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers,and classified in alphabetical order by John Purver Richardson
  11. In proportion as I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.
    — from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
  12. —The greatest advance in medicine during the past generation has been in the fields of hygiene and preventive medicine.
    — from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess
  13. By thought man also develops and arranges artificial signs to remind him in advance of consequences, and of ways of securing and avoiding them.
    — from How We Think by John Dewey

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