Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Promottion \Pro*mot"tion\, n. [L. promotio: cf. F. promotion.]
   The act of promoting, advancing, or encouraging; the act of
   exalting in rank or honor; also, the condition of being
   advanced, encouraged, or exalted in honor; preferment.
   --Milton.

         Promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the
         west, nor from the south.                --Ps. lxxv. 6.