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preferment
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synonyms: benefice ???
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Definition:promotion or appointment to a position or office
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The last acts of the Duke were to secure pensions of 250ℓ. a year to each of his secretaries, and to fill up the ecclesiastical preferments.
Charles Greville. The Greville Memoirs, volume 2 (Nov. 16, 1830)
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desired him to accompany him immediately without farther pausing, protesting it should be as well for his preferment as for his own profit.
John Lyly. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578)
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I do not think it of light importance that he should have attentive and conciliatory manners towards everybody, especially towards those to whom he owes his preferment.
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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English monarchs had traditionally manipulated members of Commons via patronage and financial preferment that at times amounted to rank bribery.
Akhil Reed Amar. America's Constitution: A Biography (2005)
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My poor brother was in the Church, and would have done well—had got preferment already,
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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PRELATE, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A gentleman of God.
Ambrose Bierce. The Devil's Dictionary
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