Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word
embetterment. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word
embetterment, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say
embetterment in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word
embetterment you have here. The definition of the word
embetterment will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition of
embetterment, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
English
Etymology
From embetter + -ment.
Noun
embetterment (countable and uncountable, plural embetterments)
- (now nonstandard) Improvement, betterment.
- 1967 March 11, in a letter in the New York Times:
- 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.
- 1994, Robyn Dane, When Mirror Turns Lamp: Frantz Fanon as Cultural Visionary, in Africa Today (second quarter, volume 41, issue 2), page 70:
- 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.
- 2000 February 29, George Bush:
- I believe it's an opportunity for educators and parents to express their frustration to the embetterment of the public school system.
2010, B. J. Davis, Fictionaut: Ordinary People:Like my Pa, Josh willed all of his mortal remains to the embetterment of science.
Translations