embetterment
embetterment noun: improvement, betterment.
Noun
embetterment (countable and uncountable, plural embetterments)
- Improvement, betterment.
- 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.1967 March 11, in a letter in the New York Times
- Since individual consciousness is cultural, it is acquired; since it is acquired, it can be improved, made just, and cultures are obliged to use it for their embetterment.1994, Robyn Dane, When Mirror Turns Lamp: Frantz Fanon as Cultural Visionary, in Africa Today (second quarter, volume 41, issue 2), page 70
Examples of embetterment in a sentence
- I believe it's an opportunity for educators and parents to express their frustration to the embetterment of the public school system.2000 February 29, George Bush
- Like my Pa, Josh willed all of his mortal remains to the embetterment of science.2010, B. J. Davis, Fictionaut: Ordinary People:
Forms of embetterment
| plural | embetterments |
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Origin of embetterment
From embetter + -ment.
Questions about embetterment
- What does embetterment mean?
- Embetterment means improvement, betterment.
- How do you use embetterment in a sentence?
- I believe it's an opportunity for educators and parents to express their frustration to the embetterment of the public school system.
- What part of speech is embetterment?
- Embetterment is a noun.
- What is the plural of embetterment?
- The plural of embetterment is embetterments.
Words near embetterment in the dictionary
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