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单词 time-bettering
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time-bettering
time-bettering adj. now rare (chiefly with reference to Shakespeare)
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1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets lxxxii. sig. F2 Some fresher stampe of the time bettering dayes. View more context for this quotation
1856 Putnam's Monthly Mag. Jan. 3/2 In the thick coming change of that ‘time-bettering age’,..life grew warm, and in the old the new was stirring.
1912 Ess. & Stud. 3 69 The..conclusion..that Shakespeare was going on writing in the sonnet-form after it had gone out of fashion, and when a poet who sought the stamp of these time-bettering days would pretty certainly adopt some other form of verse.
1957 E. Rosenstock-Huessy Rosenstock-Huessy Lect. (1997) 18 iv. 8 Time-bettering days are holidays... Now the time-bettering days of the past, gentlemen, are only alive if you celebrate them.
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