Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Improving the state of things; full of innovations.
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The very rudest play in all this collection of the school, -- left to show us the march of that 'time-bettering age,' the play which offends us most -- belongs properly to this collection; contains _this_ secret, which is the Elizabethan secret, and the secret of that art of delivery and tradition which this from the first inevitably created, -- yet rude and undeveloped, but _there_.
The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded Delia Bacon 1835
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