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Definitions
promote somebody by brevet, in the military
Word origin
Inherited from the Middle English brevet (“official letter”), from the Anglo-Norman diminutive of bref (“letter”), from the Latin brevis (“short”), whence brief.
Used in a sentence
“Delightful inducements to embark, fine chance for promotion, it seems—aye, a stove boat will make me an immortal by brevet.”
“They came over to Massachusetts Bay in another vessel, and thus escaped the onus of that brevet nobility under which the successors of the Mayflower Pilgrims had descended.”
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