| 单词 | bettering house |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbettering house bettering house n. now historical any of various establishments dedicated to improving the health, behaviour, or morals of its occupants, as a reformatory, workhouse, almshouse, etc.; cf. house of correction n. at correction n. 4d. [Compare Dutch verbeterhuis (late 17th cent.), German Besserungshaus (18th cent. or earlier).] ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > reformatory prison workhouse?c1475 house of correction1575 bridewell1583 work-jail1619 correction-housec1625 rasp house1651 bettering house1735 bettering mansion1740 penitentiary house1779 penitentiary1807 work farm1835 farm1857 pen1881 prison-industrial complex1965 1735 G. Berkeley Querist §59 Whether there are not such Things in Holland as bettering Houses for bringing young Gentlemen to Order? 1767 J. Hiltzheimer Diary 3 Jan. (1893) 12 Called..for Mrs. Reynell, took her to see the Bettering House [in Philadelphia]. 1803 Digest Civil Laws Territory of Orleans ix. 82 The judge may order that the interdicted person be attended in his own house, or that he be placed in a bettering house. 1854 S. Austin Germany 1760–1814 83 Such a state of existence would now be thought fit only for a penal colony or a bettering-house. 1917 H. M. Lippincott Early Philadelphia 312 These quiet people knew well of the Bettering House. 2002 L. Beier in L. A. Knafla Crime, Gender, & Sexuality Criminal Prosecutions 40 The ‘bettering-houses’ established in the Netherlands and western Germany from the 1480s to the 1530s, which sought to reform delinquent youth through imprisonment. < as lemmas |
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