Word Finder - preferment

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Prior claim (on payment, or on purchasing something); the first rights to obtain a particular payment or product.

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The fact of being pushed or advanced to a more favourable situation; furtherance, promotion (of a candidate, action, undertaking etc.).

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Advancement to a higher position or office; promotion.

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A position (especially in the Church of England) that provides profit or prestige.

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The fact of preferring something; preference.

Their motives were purely selfish; not God's cause but their own, not religion but power and preferment, were what they sought.'

His preferment was rapid.

Personal experience of the inconveniences and dangers of the prevailing system of preferment, the so-called myestnichestvo, or rank priority, which had paralysed the Russian armies for centuries, induced him to propose its abolition, which was accomplished by Tsar Theodore III.

His own hopes of preferment had been strengthened by the death of many of the higher clergy at Flodden.

The best proof of his not being ambitious of such a doubtful piece of preferment is that he made no attempt to get himself made king, regent or lieutenant-general of the kingdom at the time of the flight to Varennes in June 1791.

His reception by the king was flattering enough; but his hopes of preferment were dashed by the opposition of the Anglican clergy to the promotion of a papist.

But it only applies to clerks holding preferment.

He died shortly after this last preferment at Croydon, Surrey, where he was buried on the 10th of June 1552.

Possibly the freedom of his opinions may have put obstacles in the way of his preferment.

Under the Commonwealth he faced both ways, keeping his ecclesiastical preferment, but publishing from time to time pamphlets on behalf of the Church of England.

His first important preferment was as dean of Westminster (1605); afterwards he held successively the bishoprics of Rochester (1608),(1608), Lichfield (161o), Lincoln (1614),(1614), Durham (1617) and Winchester (1628),(1628), and the archbishopric of York (1631).

The children of this marriage came to England in 1247 in the hope of obtaining court preferment.

England showed itself better able than other countries to defend itself against the papal control of church preferment.

Early in 1643 he was chosen chancellor of the cathedral of Salisbury, but of this preferment he was soon deprived as a "malignant."

From sheer weariness and disgust the king refrained from any intervention in public affairs for nearly ten years, looking on indifferently while the ever shorter and stormier diets wrangled perpetually over questions of preferment and the best way of dealing with the extreme dissenters, to the utter neglect of public business.

The king was indeed the president of the permanent council, but he could not summon the diet without its consent, and in all cases of preferment was bound to select one out of three of the council's nominees.

Eberhard stated the arguments for the broader view with dignity, acuteness and learning, but the liberality of the reasoning gave great offence to the strictly orthodox divines, and is believed to have obstructed his preferment in the church.

Loftus was constantly occupied in attempts to improve his financial position by obtaining additional preferment.

In 1650, having regained his full liberty, Hammond betook himself to the friendly mansion of Sir John Pakington, at Westwood, in Worcestershire, where he died on the 25th of April 1660, just on the eve of his preferment to the see of Worcester.

The third clause required him, in all cases of preferment, to be guided not " principally," as heretofore, but " solely " by merit,, thus striking at the very root of aristocratic privilege.

The severe but dignified letter to Walpole, in which Butler accepted the preferment, showed that the slight was felt and resented.

The book brought Warburton into favour at court, and he probably only missed immediate preferment by the death of Queen Caroline.

His work had rendered great service to the government, and he might have had high preferment in the Church but for the Puritan views which he consistently maintained.

In the latter year, Morton offered the poet certain preferment in the Church, if he would only consent to take holy orders.

About this time Donne became intimate with Robert Ker, then Viscount Rochester and afterwards the infamous earl of Somerset, from whom he had hopes of preferment at court.

In the spring of 1616, Donne was presented to the living of Keyston, in Hunts., and a little later he became rector of Sevenoaks; the latter preferment he held until his death.

He had every claim to the highest preferment that ministers could give him, but his own pride and prejudice in high places stood in his way.

The secular clergy marry before ordination; and only regular clergy (kalugari) are eligible for high preferment.

The same process was carried out with regard to abbacies, and indeed with all important places of ecclesiastical preferment.

When the church was a landholder their conduct was even more unwarrantable; every clerk installed in a new preferment was forced to pay a large sum downwhich in that age was considered a clear case of simony by all conscientious men.

He was surrounded and supported, moreover, by a group of brothers and cousins, to whom he gave most of his confidence, and most of the preferment that came to his hands.

Two appointments, one to a judicial office, the other to an ecclesiastical preferment, in which Gladstone, about the same time, showed more disposition to obey the letter than the spirit of the law, confirmed the impression which the abolition of purchase had made.

He soon received a more important piece of preferment than any which he could ever have procured through Hamilton.

After holding this preferment for nearly two years, he exchanged it in July 1529 for the cure of Pont L'Eveque, a village 1 The family name of Calvin seems to have been written indifferently Cauvin, Chauve, Chauvin, Calvus, Calvinus.

But though the career of ecclesiastical preferment was thus early opened to him, Calvin was destined not to become a priest.

There, refusing the pension which had been offered him and all ecclesiastical preferment, he lived frugally, and spent his days and nights as at Brussels in literary labour.

In consequence, the author was violently attacked and his inevitable, preferment was delayed.

All other preferment he refused, with one exception.

His first preferment of importance was the chancellorship of the university.

In 1885 he became vicar of St Nicolas, Strassburg, and in 1889, declining an offer of preferment which was conditional on his becoming a German subject, he was expelled.

The only academic preferment received by him during the lengthy probation was the post of underlibrarian (1766).

It is unwise to trust those who seek preferment, status or a seat on the security council.

Several others are north countrymen; others held preferment in the diocese before they became bishops thereof.

But again I've no doubt that membership is abused to give or obtain personal preferment.

There have been many examples of freemasons using their membership to gain preferment in their careers and avoid due punishment for their misdemeanors.

As we have already noted, wealth alone, no matter how it was acquired, could not buy official preferment.

Simony is the buying of ecclesiastical preferment - how does this affect the whole story?

Well, my decision is that you had better look for some other preferment.

Urban IV. repeatedly offered him high ecclesiastical preferment, which he in his humility declined.

Fidelity to his own spirituality was always his, but political preferment went to those who followed the dictates of self-interested prudence.