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noun

Preferment n.

The act of choosing, or the state of being chosen; preference. (R.) "Natural preferment of the one... before the other."

The act of preferring, or advancing in dignity or office; the state of being advanced; promotion. "Neither royal blandishments nor promises of valuable preferment had been spared."

A position or office of honor or profit; as, the preferments of the church.

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Etymology of 'Preferment'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Preferment" Quotes from Famous Books

... will be always an insurmountable barrier to general amalgamation." Again, "Were they of the same color and features that we are, in an elective republican government like this, where talents and merit are the common footsteps to esteem and preferment, there would be no difficulty in universal emancipation, without a separation. I have no idea that they are at all inferior to the white people in intellect; give them the same opportunity for enterprise and improvement." Their only sin, it appears, after all, is being "guilty ...

— A Visit To The United States In 1841 • Joseph Sturge

... the United States is written this law: "No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States." The purpose of this law is to defeat any attempt to elevate one citizen above another in rank of social or political preferment. Ours is a country free from the entanglements of social distinction such as mark one man or family from another by way of title or patent of nobility; and yet, in our country of uncrowned kings and unknighted ...

— Boy Scouts Handbook - The First Edition, 1911 • Boy Scouts of America

... him prepare for a voyage to England, and added that within a few days he would be archbishop of Canterbury. Becket, looking with a smile of irony on his dress, replied that he had not much of the appearance of an archbishop; and that if the King were serious, he must beg permission to decline the preferment, because it would be impossible for him to perform the duties of the situation and at the same time retain the favor of his benefactor. But Henry was inflexible; the legate Henry of Pisa added his entreaties; and Becket, though he already saw the storm gathering ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume VI. • Various

... men they aspired to succeed had breathed their last. Neither they, nor the ministers who treated Church patronage as a means of strengthening their party, were necessarily careless about religion. Newcastle and Hardwicke, for example, were religious men, and the personal piety of some preferment-seeking bishops is unquestioned. It was a matter in which the Church was neither better nor worse than the age. The ecclesiastical system was disorganised by plurality and non-residence; the dignified clergy ...

— The Political History of England - Vol. X. • William Hunt

... rare to find this type of woman competing with men in outside business affairs, although her influence has always counted immensely in official life where she pulls the strings to get husband or lover Government preferment or concession. ...

— The War After the War • Isaac Frederick Marcosson

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