Literary notes about advanced (AI summary)
The term "advanced" appears with remarkable versatility in literature, functioning both as a direction of movement and as an indicator of progress or development. In many narratives, it describes physical motion or military maneuvers—characters or armies "advanced" through landscapes ([1], [2], [3], [4])—often evoking a sense of strategic or exploratory movement. At the same time, "advanced" is used to signify a higher stage of complexity or wisdom, as in discussions of scientific knowledge ([5]), academic progress ([6], [7], [8]), or even the evolution of civilization ([9]). Moreover, the word conveys the idea of a process reaching its later stages, as seen in time-related phrases like “the night was far advanced” ([10]) or seasons advancing toward their culmination ([11], [12]). Thus, whether as a verb or an adjective, "advanced" enriches narratives by highlighting both physical progress and the evolution of ideas.
- I advanced forward, and cast anchor on the lee-side of the island, which seemed to be uninhabited.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift - By three in the afternoon of the 14th Flag-officer Foote was ready, and advanced upon the water batteries with his entire fleet.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. Grant - The ground was damp but not muddy, and the troops advanced noiselessly, only occasionally a jingling of the artillery could be faintly heard.
— from War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy - The combatants advanced along the trodden tracks, nearer and nearer to one another, beginning to see one another through the mist.
— from War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy - 24-9: In Plato's Timaeus story of Atlantis, he tells of the inhabitants' advanced state of scientific knowledge.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda - It was, rather, to be a guide for the advanced student of Stoicism to show him the best roads toward the goal of becoming a true philosopher.
— from The Enchiridion by Epictetus - The more advanced the scholar the better he could carry on his craft.’
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. Evans-Wentz - I passed in all the subjects I offered, and with credit in advanced Latin....
— from The Story of My Life by Helen Keller - They were then (about 2500 or 3000 B.C.) in a relatively advanced state of civilization.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. Werner - And the night was far advanced and dark; and Paravasu, blinded by drowsiness in that deep wood, mistook his father for a straggling deer.
— from The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 - (I remember where I was stopping at the time, the season being advanced, there were many lilacs in full bloom.
— from Complete Prose Works by Walt Whitman - But, as the night advanced, the clouds closing in and densely over-spreading the whole sky, then very dark, it came on to blow, harder and harder.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
