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Betterment   /bˈɛtərmənt/   Listen
Betterment

noun
1.
A change for the better; progress in development.  Synonyms: advance, improvement.
2.
An improvement that adds to the value of a property or facility.
3.
The act of relieving ills and changing for the better.  Synonyms: amelioration, melioration.





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"Betterment" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the category discriminations we apply to him. While, as has been suggested, much can be done by those who have gained in knowledge of our kind by importing understandings into our relations with men, the only effective way to the betterment of those relations ...
— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park
... reveals the slow evolutionary processes that operate in social life, and hence tends to encourage one to put himself in harmony with the laws of social evolution and to strive for social betterment while he at the same time is patient ...
— A Guide to Methods and Observation in History - Studies in High School Observation • Calvin Olin Davis
... possible, the ways of labor, so that they might raise corn and other products of the earth, and thus supply their magazines against a time of war; to dupe the Governor into the belief that their mission was one of peace, and undertaken solely for the moral uplift and betterment of the tribes—in the meantime, by the constant practice of religious ceremonies and rites, to work on the superstition of the warriors; win them, if need be, from the chieftains who might counsel peace, and by a series of warlike sports and exercises, hold together the young bucks and train ...
— The Land of the Miamis • Elmore Barce
... interested in the betterment of society comes the reflection that getting on with men is life's abiding aim and end. Schools can teach no other knowledge comparable to this. It is important to train the child in music, to drill him in public speech, to teach ...
— A Man's Value to Society - Studies in Self Culture and Character • Newell Dwight Hillis
... publishing "Evan Nelson's" history is to enlighten the public concerning life behind the wicket and thus pave the way for the legitimate organization of bankclerks into a fraternal association, for their financial and social (including moral) betterment. ...
— A Canadian Bankclerk • J. P. Buschlen


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