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embetterment en · NOUN

Etymology

From embetter + -ment.

Meanings

1. (countable, nonstandard, uncountable) Improvement, betterment.
   • 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
   • Like my Pa, Josh willed all of his mortal remains to the embetterment of science. 2010, B. J. Davis, Fictionaut: Ordinary People:
   • 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
   • 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

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