What is "preferment"

Usage examples of "preferment".

Even those once known to support that right above all others had been browbeaten and tempted by preferment to adopt a different attitude.

There he read that the king checked appeals to Rome, made excommunication conditional, exercised control over vacant sees and ecclesiastical preferments.

Old Language and Latin, which none of the preceptores in the scriptorium or chartularium could claim to be, so those monks muttered and grumbled only a little at my having won preferment instead of one of them.

He was now beyond thirty five, unapt by every gift of nature, and by his nurture, for ecclesiastical preferment.

A violent contest ensued, in the course of which the house divided, and of fifty-seven peers who voted for the delay, forty-six were such as enjoyed preferment in the church, commissions in the army, or civil employments under the government.

Ki, a small cape in Onega Bay, wandered southward to Olonets, where he got together a band of followers, proceeded to Moscow, obtained the notice of the throne, got preferment, was soon made Patriarch.

And now thou sayest that for all this which I have undergone in the service of the king I shall have not preferment but a dungeon or death.

But though this complacence to one whom the captain thoroughly despised, was not so uneasy to him as it would have been had any hopes of preferment made it necessary to show the same submission to a Hoadley, or to some other of great reputation in the science, yet even this cost him too much to be endured without some motive.

Charles Congreve, a clergyman, which he thus described: 'He obtained, I believe, considerable preferment in Ireland, but now lives in London, quite as a valetudinarian, afraid to go into any house but his own.

This done, in the next place he took an oath, and swore fidelity to his great master Diabolus, and then, being stated and settled in his places, offices, advancements, and preferments, oh!

How could he reconcile it to his conscience that he was there in London with Sowerby and Harold Smith, petitioning for Church preferment to a man who should have been altogether powerless in such a matter, buying horses, and arranging about past due bills?

Deliriously, ravenously, Richard sent his mind back to the napkin-scarved bottles of old champagne tipped his way by tuxedoed athletes (even the help was hip, was hot) and bims in ra-ra skirts offering canapes made of dodo G-spots and hummingbird helmets, in the octagonal library, where he had mingled with the knowers and philosopher kings of the living wordwhile all the agents and editors and publishers cowered in their nimbus of pelf and preferment: men and women who shunned him.

And, on the other side, to keep him faithful, the prince is as much concerned to do for him, by honouring him, enriching him, giving him good offices and preferments, that the wealth and honour conferred by his master may keep him from looking out for himself, and the plenty and goodness of his offices make him afraid of a change, knowing that without his prince's favour he can never subsist.

Apparently the way to preferment in those days was to express faith in the Manifest Destiny of the young nation.

To buy with Mony, or Preferment, from a Popular ambitious Subject, to be quiet,and desist from making ill impressions in the mindes of the People, has nothing of the nature of Reward.