Preferment
[prɪ'fɜːm(ə)nt] or [prɪ'fɝmənt]
Definition
(noun.) the act of preferring; 'the preferment went to the younger candidate'.
(noun.) the act of making accusations; 'preferment of charges'.
Checker: Shari--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of choosing, or the state of being chosen; preference.
(n.) The act of preferring, or advancing in dignity or office; the state of being advanced; promotion.
(n.) A position or office of honor or profit; as, the preferments of the church.
Typist: Nelda
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Promotion, advancement, exaltation, elevation.
Checked by Curtis
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Dignity, promotion, benefice, advancement, exaltation
ANT:Degradation, deprivation, suspension
Typed by Clyde
Examples
- However, Meyler spoiled my preferment with Ebrington by hurting his lordship's vanity and thus damping all his ardour. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The same difference runs through all the inferior degrees of preferment in both. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Those fears and expectations may consist in the fear of deprivation or other punishment, and in the expectation of further preferment. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I am no young lady on her preferment. Jane Austen. Emma.
- But the motives of a man who takes orders with the certainty of preferment may be fairly suspected, you think? Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I confess that's what I should be afraid of, if we parsons had to stand at the hustings for preferment. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- All church preferments were in this manner in the disposal of the church. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Does an individual place himself beyond the pale of those preferments by entering on such an office as Mr. Micawber has accepted? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
Edited by Donnie