Crossword-Solution: PREFERMENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Preferment | n. | The act of choosing, or the state of being chosen; preference. |
| Preferment | n. | The act of preferring, or advancing in dignity or office; the state of being advanced; promotion. |
| Preferment | n. | A position or office of honor or profit; as, the preferments of the church. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “PREFERMENT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Appointment to a position | 1 answer |
| Promotion to a job | 1 answer |
| the act of making accusations | 1 answer |
| BETTER position | 11 answers |
| Advancement | 38 answers |
| furtherance | 47 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PREFERMENT (5)
For a year they had served in the retinue of Issus; to-day they were to pay the price of this divine preferment with their lives; tomorrow they would grace the tables of the court functionaries.
The preferment seemed to him in the nature of a well-merited reward for painstaking and intelligent service, and as a stepping stone to posts of greater importance and responsibility; but, on the other hand, he had been married to the Hon.
Edward’s marriage with Lucy was as firmly determined on, and the time of its taking place remained as absolutely uncertain, as she had concluded it would be;—every thing depended, exactly after her expectation, on his getting that preferment, of which, at present, there seemed not the smallest chance.
Law) The first year's profits of a spiritual preferment, anciently paid by the clergy to the pope; first fruits.
None better than she remembered how his dearest ambition, that of political preferment, had been thwarted by his refusal to truckle, to connive, to compromise with his ideas of right.