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
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
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