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4 words match “BETTERMENT”

BETTERMENT n. 2 definitions
A making better; amendment; improvement. W. Montagu.
FUTURELESS a.
Without prospect of betterment in the future. W. D. Howells.
IMPROVEMENT n. 2 definitions
The state of being improved; betterment; advance; also, that which is improved; as, the new edition is an improvement on the old. The parts of Sinon, Camilla, and some few others, are improvements on the Greek poet. Addison.
NEO-MALTHUSIAN a.
ng to, a group of modern economists who hold to the Malthusianism doctrine that permanent betterment of the general standard of living is impossible without decrease of competition by limitation of the number of births. -- Ne`o- Mal*thu"sian, Ne`o-Mal*thu"sian*ism, n.