| 单词 | preferment-hunting |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspreferment-hunting preferment-hunting adj. and n. ΚΠ 1742 ‘Fantosme’ Mem. Nobility Thule I. 13 No wonder that a Place so advantageous was sought after by our Preferment-hunting Flamens. 1759 A. Lodovico Satires iii. 60 Had I gone to Rome, it may be said, There to preferment-hunting turn'd my head Ere this in all appearance I had got Abbies or pensions, prelacies—what not? 1818 J. Bentham Church-of-Englandism 440 Hope of translation, and thence the pursuit called preferment-hunting, scarcely even in Scotland can have been altogether without example. 1964 Eng. Stud. 45 70 The preferment-hunting of the tutors was notorious. 1990 J. E. Crimmins Secular Utilitarianism vi. 184 Nonresidence, sinecurism, plural benefices, preferment hunting, ‘pastoral rapacity’, the sale of pews, compulsory rates and tithes, the neglect of duties. < as lemmas |
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