preferment (n.)
- advance
- advancement
- aggrandizement
- amelioration
- amendment
- appointment
- ascent
- betterment
- boost
- calling
- canonization
- conferment
- consecration
- election
- elevation
- enhancement
- ennoblement
- enrichment
- eugenics
- euthenics
- exaltation
- furtherance
- graduation
- headway
- improvement
- induction
- installation
- institution
- investiture
- lift
- melioration
- mend
- mending
- nomination
- orders
- ordination
- passing
- pickup
- preference
- presentation
- progress
- progression
- promotion
- raise
- recovery
- restoration
- revival
- rise
- upbeat
- uplift
- upping
'T is the curse of service,
Preferment goes by letter and affection,
And not by old gradation, where each second
Stood heir to the first.
