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bettership

bettership noun: betterment; improvement.

Noun

bettership (uncountable)

  1. Betterment; improvement.
    • [I]t [private education] becomes the puffer vp to pride in the recluſe, and the direction to diſdaine, by dreaming ſtill of betterſhip: […]1581, Richard Mulcaster, “Of the Training Vp of Yong Gentlemen. Of Priuate and Publike Education, with Their Generall Goods & Illes. […]”, in Positions wherin Those Primitive Circvmstances be...
    • […] 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, […]1818, Sherwin’s Political Register, volume III, page 395
    Synonyms:
    betterhood

Synonyms of bettership

Origin of bettership

From better + -ship. Compare West Frisian betterskip.

Questions about bettership

What does bettership mean?
Bettership means betterment; improvement.
What part of speech is bettership?
Bettership is a noun.

Words near bettership in the dictionary

  1. bettermost
  2. bettern't
  3. betterness
  4. betternesses
  5. betters
  6. bettership
  7. bettersome
  8. Betterton
  9. bettertonite
  10. Bettertons
  11. Bettes

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