"bettership" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1818, Sherwin's Political Register - Volume 3 - Page 395",
          "text": "[…] 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, […]"
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          "ref": "1888, Richard Mulcaster, Robert Hebert Quick, Positions - Page 186:",
          "text": "Wherby it becomes the puffer vp to pride in the recluse, and the direction to disdaine, by dreaming still of bettership: […]",
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          "ref": "1922, The Friend, volume 95, page 591:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "betterment; improvement"
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          "word": "betterhood"
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  "word": "bettership"
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