Embetterment

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Improvement, betterment. countable, nonstandard, uncountable

    "The flagrant act by the House to exclude Powell only reveals how this session of the House is so blinded by that element in the Congress that surreptitiously rebels against the embetterment of all Americans, of all births."

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"The flagrant act by the House to exclude Powell only reveals how this session of the House is so blinded by that element in the Congress that surreptitiously rebels against the embetterment of all Americans, of all births."

Etymology

From embetter + -ment.

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