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from The Century Dictionary.
- Not bettered or mitigated.
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Examples
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Social engineering of the worst kind, unbettered by any Labour govt.
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The same qualities and the same style will be found, unchanged, unbettered, in these following paragraphs -- after a lapse of more than fifty years, and after -- as aforesaid -- long literary training.
Christian Science Mark Twain 1872
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Then, if not, and in so far as you are unchanged and unbettered, the Gospel is a failure for you, and you are untrue to it.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John Alexander Maclaren 1868
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Vinci -- master among masters -- first discerned the laws of the coiling clouds and wandering streams, so that to this day his engineering remains unbettered by modern science; and yet in this center of all human achievements of genius no thought has been taken to receive with sacred art these great gifts of quiet snow and flying rain.
On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature John Ruskin 1859
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South Africa's Gavin Lawless that his points benchmark remains unbettered.
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South Africa's Gavin Lawless that his points benchmark remains unbettered.
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