Preferment is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PREFERMENT in dictionary:

NOUN:
• promotion
• promotion or appointment to a position or office
• promotion; higher opening
• The act of choosing, or the state of being chosen; preference.
• The act of preferring, or advancing in dignity or office; the state of being advanced; promotion.
• A position or office of honor or profit; as, the preferments of the church.
• the act of making accusations
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• advancement or promotion in dignity, office, or station; a position or office of honor or profit

Words related to PREFERMENT

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Words that contain PREFERMENT

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How to use PREFERMENT in a sentence

• No man stood any chance of political preferment unless he was rich or was allied with the aristocracy, who controlled the House of Commons.
• Knowest thou not, that I am a great name-father? Preferment I bestow, both military and civil.
• He found the small patriot army rent asunder by jealous feuds growing out of ambition for preferment.
• We carry them on the land and the sea, and have made provision of good things for them, and have preferred them above many of those whom We created with a marked preferment.
• None can hope to be distinguished without having given proofs of it, nor can there be any preferment, or influence among the nation, without some warlike achievement.
• If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it in a most extraordinary manner.
• Neither of them made any secret of the fact that they regarded Church preferment as a useful means of strengthening their own power.
• Curious indeed are the glimpses which the Bishop gives us into the system of Church patronage and the race for preferment which were prevalent in his day.
• Tongue was recommended for the first considerable church preferment which should become vacant.
• He calculated on early ecclesiastical preferment through the favour of Her Majesty Queen Adelaide, to whom he had been presented, and who had evinced some interest on his behalf.
• He soon received a more important piece of preferment than any which he could ever have procured through Hamilton.
• Illness, accompanied with sharp pain, clipped the wings of his ambition, obliged him to forego preferment, and deepened the hopelessness that hung over his expectations.
• Swift soon grew weary of a preferment, which to a man of his ambition was far from being sufficiently considerable.
• The ladies told me that I had pleased him, which gratified me not a little, as without him no preferment could be obtained in Scotland.
• Then, in a friendly manner, they advised us to be as sparing of truth as possibly we could if ever we had a mind to get court preferment.
• Lord Guildford rejoiced mightily over your preferment.
• He left England from no disappointed ambition in affairs of state, from no regrets at the want of preferment in the church, nor from any motive of distinction or of gain.
• I am a kind of path To her and mine own preferment.
• These afford the only ladder for the poor to rise to preferment.
• As the tribal wealth increased, the leaders, their families and retainers got more than a fair share of the available goods, services, preferment, privileges.
• But thou art a woman and therefore preferment is not for thee.
• He lived a very retired life, refusing all preferment, though many valuable and honourable appointments were offered to him.
• He died January 21, 1855, without having obtained preferment in his own country, until within a few months of his death.
• He was ambitious of power and money, and when he found little chance of preferment among the Whigs, he became a Tory.
• This is best effected by democratic institutions, where every preferment is open to all, and where the division of estates follows every death.

Similar words containing FERM without suffix ent and without prefix pre

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