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Definition of Bettered
1. better [v] - See also: better
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bettered
Literary usage of Bettered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Treatise on Sociology, Theoretical and Practical by Henry Hughes (1854)
"Production may be from desire of bettered condition, alone. It may be from fear
of worse ... Desire of bettered condition, and duty, may be its supplements. ..."
2. The Bible Word-book: A Glossary of Archaic Words and Phrases in the by William Aldis Wright, Jonathan Eastwood (1884)
"53<I. The works of nature do always aim at that which cannot be bettered. ...
This device I see not how the wisest at that time living could have bettered, ..."
3. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.: Secretary to the by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke (1855)
"I am glad that your health, in that sweet recess, is bettered; God prolong it !
and grant that I may be so happy as to kiss your hand nest Spring. ..."
4. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1870)
"STONE bettered HIS SITUATION. The Invitation Heeded: Reasons for a Return to
Catholic Unity. By JAMES KENT STONE, late President of Kenyon College, Gambler; ..."
5. The New Testament by Canadian Bible Society (1889)
"26 And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had.
and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse, 27 When she had heard ..."
6. The Jonson Allusion-Book: A Collection of Allusions to Ben Jonson from 1597-1700 by Jesse Franklin Bradley, Joseph Quincy Adams (1922)
"... Her good things had been bettered, and her bad Undone; the first for joy, the
last for fear, That such a Muse should spread them to our ear. ..."
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