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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Pro-mō'tion, n.

noun

n. [Lat. promotio, Fr. promotion, Pr. promotio, Sp. promocion, It. promozione. See supra.]

  1. The act of promoting, advancing, or encouraging; the act of exalting in rank or honor; as, the promotion of virtue or morals; the promotion of peace or of discord.
  2. The condition of being advanced, encouraged, or exalted in honor.

Promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. Ps. lxxv. 6.

My promotion will be thy destruction. Milton.