Meaning of bettership | Babel Free

Definitions

betterment; improvement

uncountable

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.”

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