preferment

How To Use preferment In A Sentence

• The monarchs and bierarchs of Bacon's day do appear, but chiefly as recipients of the stream of anxious supplications for preferment Bacon submits throughout his ‘troubled life’.
• Now, as for those in our church who contend for the ceremonies, many of them are led by such _argumenta inartificialia_, as wealth, preferment, &c., and if conscience be at all looked to by them, yet they only throw and extort an assent and allowance from it, when worldly respects have made them to propend and incline to an anterior liking of the ceremonies. The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)
• Courtenay's aristocratic connections carried him rapidly up the ladder of preferment.
• the preferment went to the younger candidate
• The appointment was the officer's last posting, offering no prospect of promotion or preferment thereafter.
• His aristocratic and clerical connections ensured his rapid preferment, but he was only a minor pluralist.
• It was at this moment in her day when she received supplicants for preferment in the court, members of the administration or the armed forces over which she wielded great influence.
• His voluminous surviving correspondence is full of letters from noblemen of all ranks eager to gain his favour or reporting on tasks that he had given them in the hope of further preferment.
• Sheldon's patronage preferments followed apace, and Stradling was soon a substantial pluralist.
• The great honour which Nebuchadnezzar put upon Daniel, in recompence for this service, and the preferment of his companions with him, ver. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)