Definition of Preferments. Meaning of Preferments. Synonyms of Preferments

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Definition of Preferments

Preferment
Preferment Pre*fer"ment, n. 1. The act of choosing, or the state of being chosen; preference. [R.] Natural preferment of the one . . . before the other. --Sir T. Browne. 2. The act of preferring, or advancing in dignity or office; the state of being advanced; promotion. Neither royal blandishments nor promises of valuable preferment had been spared. --Macaulay. 3. A position or office of honor or profit; as, the preferments of the church.

Meaning of Preferments from wikipedia

- A pre-ferment (also known as bread starter) is a fermentation starter used in indirect‍ methods of bread making. It may also be called mother dough. A...
- cession, upon the clerk being instituted to another benefice or some other preferment incompatible with it; by deprivation and sentence of an ecclesiastical...
- The Noble Fisherman, also known as Robin Hood's Preferment and Robin Hood's Fishing, is a 17th-century ballad of Robin Hood. Unusually, it depicts Robin...
- A Fool's Preferment; Or, The Three Dukes Of Dunstable is a 1688 comedy play by the English writer Thomas D'Urfey. It is a reworking of John Fletcher's...
- David Obiosa was the first Bishop of Ndokwa Diocese, one of the 13 Dioceses in the Province of Bendel under the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion David...
- "preferments" and are ordered by bishops. Such appointments that place a preferment title in front of "Reverend" are normally a permanent preferment,...
- II, resulting in fortifications and topographical surveys but lack of preferment, and his later career, following the Glorious Revolution, as designer...
- George Ingram, 8th Viscount Irvine (or Irwin) (1694-1763) was an English clergyman and peer in the Peerage of Scotland. His occupation of the Viscountcy...
- Clerk to execute his Office of a Priest and to hold any Ecclesiastical Preferment or Office in the United Church of England and Ireland within Her Majesty's...
- is not a permanent title and, when no longer in a position entitling preferment, it is usually dropped from a cleric's title nomenclature. However, it...