Advancement in place or power; improvement in position or circumstances.

The action of preferring; the condition of being preferred; preferment, promotion; pre-eminence, superiority. historical in later use.

Elevation to a high or higher rank. Obsolete.

gen. Superiority, supremacy; = ascendancy, n.

Elevation to a higher social rank or to a position of greater wealth; an instance of this.

Elevation to a very high rank or status. Also: an instance of this. rare before the late 20th cent.

The action of raising or lifting something up (literal and figurative); elevation, exaltation.

The action of raising in rank or dignity; the state or fact of being elevated in rank.