bettership
English
editEtymology
editFrom better + -ship. Compare West Frisian betterskip.
Noun
editbettership (uncountable)
- betterment; improvement
- 1818, Sherwin's Political Register - Volume 3 - Page 395:
- […] 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, […]
- 1888, Richard Mulcaster, Robert Hebert Quick, Positions - Page 186:
- Wherby it becomes the puffer vp to pride in the recluse, and the direction to disdaine, by dreaming still of bettership: […]
- 1922, The Friend, volume 95, page 591:
- 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.
- 1818, Sherwin's Political Register - Volume 3 - Page 395: