preferment in English

noun
1
promotion or appointment to a position or office.
after ordination, preferment was fast

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "preferment" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "preferment", or refer to the context using the word "preferment" in the English Dictionary.

1. Beneficed: Possessed of a benefice or church preferment

2. 25 His own preferment was not a little due to his discerning hospitality.

3. Barratry definition is - the purchase or sale of office or preferment in church or state.

4. As nouns the difference between ambition and Ambitiousness is that ambition is (uncountablecountable) eager or inordinate desire for some object that confers distinction, as preferment, honor, superiority, political power, or literary fame; desire to distinguish one's self from other people while Ambitiousness is the state or quality of being ambitious.

5. Mid-14c., "eager or inordinate desire for honor or preferment," from Old French ambicion (13c.), or directly from Latin Ambitionem (nominative Ambitio) "a going around," especially to solicit votes, hence "a striving for favor, courting, flattery; a desire for honor, thirst for popularity," noun of action from past-participle stem of ambire "to go around, go about," from amb

6. Mid-14c., "eager or inordinate desire for honor or preferment," from Old French ambicion (13c.), or directly from Latin Ambitionem (nominative ambitio) "a going around," especially to solicit votes, hence "a striving for favor, courting, flattery; a desire for honor, thirst for popularity," noun of action from past-participle stem of ambire "to go around, go about," from amb- "around" (from PIE root *ambhi- …

7. Mid-14c., "eager or inordinate desire for honor or preferment," from Old French ambicion (13c.), or directly from Latin Ambitionem (nominative ambitio) "a going around," especially to solicit votes, hence "a striving for favor, courting, flattery; a desire for honor, thirst for popularity," noun of action from past-participle stem of ambire "to go around, go about," from amb- "around" (from PIE root *ambhi- …