Meanings of ecclesiastical preferments in anglès

The Abbe Vermond enjoyed much influence with regard to ecclesiastical preferments.

But the mortification followed soon after: the archbishop, though advanced to some ecclesiastical preferments.

He shows those to be guilty of manifold simony, who serve princes or flatter them for the sake of obtaining ecclesiastical preferments.

The prior said it was more unsuitable in one who held so many ecclesiastical preferments, and was likely to become Archbishop of Canterbury.

Both were conspicuous for their abilities and classical erudition, and the latter, who survived his brother Antonio, was subsequently raised to high ecclesiastical preferments.

He did not, like so many princes of his age, make ecclesiastical preferments a source of corrupt gain, but promoted good men from all quarters.

During the Governorship of Martin de Urena, Count de Lizárraga (1709-15), the Aragonese and Castilian priests quarrelled about the ecclesiastical preferments.

There is a way, I know, that some people love marvellously to talk of; and that is a just and equal levelling of Ecclesiastical preferments.