Enlargement vs Preferment - What's the difference?
enlargement | preferment | Related terms |
The act of making something larger.
(figuratively) A making more obvious or serious; exacerbation.
:* Bathsheba underwent the enlargement of her husband's absence from hours to days with a slight feeling of surprise, and a slight feeling of relief; yet neither sensation rose at any time far above the level commonly designated as indifference.
An image, particularly a photograph, that has been enlarged.
(obsolete) The fact of being pushed or advanced to a more favourable situation; furtherance, promotion (of a candidate, action, undertaking etc.).
*, II.12:
*:A mind warranted from prejudice, hath a marvellous preferment to tranquility.
Advancement to a higher position or office; promotion.
A position (especially in the Church of England) that provides profit or prestige.
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Enlargement is a related term of preferment.
As nouns the difference between enlargement and preferment
is that enlargement is the act of making something larger while preferment is .enlargement
English
Noun
(en noun)- Rick was ashamed about the size of his penis, so he had a penis enlargement .
- ‘’’1874 Thomas Hardy, ‘’Far From the Madding Crowd’’, 2005 Barnes & Noble Classics publication of 1912 Wessex edition, p337:
