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  1.  Improved, amended, rendered more excellent.

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1660.  H. More, Myst. Godl., II. vi. 40. The bettered soil answers the swain’s desire.

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1874.  S. Cox, Pilgr. Ps., i. 21. Let me find a bettered world when I come back to it.

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  b.  esp. Improved in health or condition.

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1632.  Sir J. Eliot in Four C. Eng. Lett., 65. I find myself bettered but not well.

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1856.  Mrs. Browning, Aur. Leigh, III. 960. They certainly felt bettered unaware, Emerging from the social smut of towns.

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  2.  Advantaged, that has got the better of another.

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a. 1659.  Osborn, Observ. Turks (1673), 343. Here the bettered Party is left so little to boast of.

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