Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PRO-MO'TION, n. [Fr.; from promote.]

1. The act of promoting; advancement; encouragement; as, the promotion of virtue or morals; the promotion of peace or of discord.
2. Exaltation in rank or honor; preferment. My promotion will be thy destruction. – Milton. Promotion cometh neither from the east nor from the west, nor from the south. – Ps. lxxv.