promove

P3R1O1M3O1V4E1

verb

To move forward; to advance; to promote.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

verbpromove (third-person singular simple present promoves, present participle promoving, simple past and past participle promoved)

present singular third person promoves · participle present promoving · participle past promoved · past promoved

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo move forward; to advance; to promote.

    "If yee knew him," said she, "als weill as I doe, yee would never promove him to anie office in your Kirk."

    1646, David Calderwood, The Historie of the Kirk of Scotland

Origin

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