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Meanings of preferment in English
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Usage of preferment in English
1
It was the way a young man made friends and obtained preferment.
2
In the preferment of Lady Rosamond, they were of the same mind.
3
These afford the only ladder for the poor to rise to preferment.
4
For procuring military preferment Arabic was in 1874 as valueless as Patagonian.
5
The entertainment and preferment he could provide were accepted as sufficient reward.
6
To climb a tree is a sign of swift elevation and preferment.
7
But perhaps you are waiting for preferment, and so I bore it.
8
Gold was the only passkey to justice, to preferment, or to power.
9
I, with others of thy friends, resent this great preferment of Elias.
10
Arden cared not for preferment, but Henry Sedley's eyes were very eager.
11
In the Church, preferment in these days always goes to the moderate men.
12
The same difference runs through all the inferior degrees of preferment in both.
13
The preferment of these bills had the effect of re-awakening the subsiding excitement.
14
Mr. Watson afterwards found higher preferment, and went to the South of England.
15
To reward the zeal, etc., and also by their preferment to make more.
16
Men in the King's service received preferment more often than direct monetary reward.
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