"embetterment" meaning in All languages combined

See embetterment on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: embetterments [plural]
Etymology: From embetter + -ment. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|embetter|ment}} embetter + -ment Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} embetterment (countable and uncountable, plural embetterments)
  1. (now nonstandard) Improvement, betterment. Tags: countable, nonstandard, uncountable Related terms: embetter
    Sense id: en-embetterment-en-noun-V75RRF9B Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ment

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1967 March 11, in a letter in the New York Times",
          "text": "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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          "ref": "1994, Robyn Dane, When Mirror Turns Lamp: Frantz Fanon as Cultural Visionary, in Africa Today (second quarter, volume 41, issue 2), page 70",
          "text": "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."
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          "ref": "2000 February 29, George Bush",
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