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  • 41Pietro Bembo —     Pietro Bembo     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Pietro Bembo     A famous Italian scholar and Cardinal, b. of a noble family at Venice, 20 May, 1470; d. at Rome, 18 January, 1547. He was the son of Bernardo Bembo, whose enthusiasm for Italian… …

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  • 42Thomas Cardinal Wolsey —     Thomas Wolsey     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Thomas Wolsey     Cardinal, Archbishop of York, b. at Ipswitch, the usually accepted date, 1471, being probably three or four years too early; d. at Leicester Abbey, 29 November, 1530. His father,… …

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  • 43furtherance — I noun advancement, advocacy, aid, amelioration, assistance, behalf, betterment, championship, change for better, cooperation, course, defense, development, favor, gain, growth, headway, help, improvement, lift, longevity, preferment, progress,… …

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  • 44promotion — I (advancement) noun advance, amelioration, betterment, elevation, elevation in rank, exaltation, forwarding, graduation, headway, improvement, increase, lift, passing, preferment, progress, progression, raise, rise, uplift II (encouragement)… …

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  • 45ascent — Synonyms and related words: Brownian movement, Great Leap Forward, abruptness, access, accession, acclivity, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, addition, advance, advancement, aggrandizement, airiness, amelioration, amendment,… …

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  • 46mend — Synonyms and related words: Great Leap Forward, acculturate, advance, advancement, ameliorate, amelioration, amend, amendment, ascent, better, bettering, betterment, boost, bring forward, civilize, cobble, come along, come on, commission,… …

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  • 47upswing — Synonyms and related words: Great Leap Forward, access, accession, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, addition, advance, advancement, aggrandizement, amelioration, amendment, amplification, anabasis, appreciation, ascension, ascent,… …

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  • 48uptrend — Synonyms and related words: Great Leap Forward, access, accession, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, addition, advance, advancement, aggrandizement, amelioration, amendment, amplification, appreciation, ascent, augmentation,… …

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  • 49advancement — I (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Promotion in rank] Syn. preferment, elevation, raise; see promotion 1 . 2. [Progress] Syn. gain, headway, progression; see improvement 1 , progress 1 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. 1. promotion move up, graduation, rise …

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  • 50elevation — [n1] height; high ground acclivity, altitude, ascent, boost, eminence, heave, hill, hillock, hoist, levitation, mountain, platform, ridge, rise, roof, top, uplift, upthrow; concepts 509,741 Ant. depression, lowness elevation [n2] advancement,… …

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