Bettership
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 betterment; improvement uncountable
"[…] 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, […]"
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More 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, […]"
Etymology
From better + -ship. Compare West Frisian betterskip.
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