bettership

== English == === Etymology === From better +‎ -ship. Compare West Frisian betterskip. === Noun === bettership (uncountable) betterment; improvement 1818, Sherwin's Political Register - Volume 3 - Page 395: […] 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, […] ==== Synonyms ==== betterhood