bettership
Examples
“[…] to all kinds of labour and servitude, where after experiencing degradation, contempt, and stinted allowance of food, which the unnatural spirit of aristocratic bettership engenders, they often exchange⟳ a bad state for a worse, from oppression to prostitution, […]”
“Wherby it becomes the puffer vp to pride in the recluse, and the direction to disdaine, by dreaming still of bettership: […]”
“Time properly brings changes, but to those of us who have⟳ shared the spiritual responsibilities of such a Committee, its experiences have⟳ contributed conspicuously of bettership in our lives.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
See also
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