| 单词 | world-betterer |
| 释义 | > as lemmasworld-betterer world-betterer n. [after German Weltverbesserer (1791 or earlier)] ΚΠ 1842 E. Bulwer-Lytton Zanoni ii. vii. 183 He was, to use the expressive German phrase, a world-betterer! 1875 W. Cory Lett. & Jrnls. (1897) 376 One should..try to be an improver, a ‘world-betterer’ (Cambridge slang of my time). 1896 L. A. Tollemache B. Jowett (ed. 2) 118 That ardent world-betterer T. H. Green. 1996 E. Alexander Jewish Wars ii. 15 Any nurse who ever lifted a bedpan has done more for tikkun olam than all these world-betterers listed by Fein. < as lemmas |
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