bettership

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. betterment; improvement uncountable
    — […] 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, […]

词源

From better + -ship. Compare West Frisian betterskip.
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