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self-improvement

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self-im·prove·ment (slfm-prvmnt)
n.
Improvement of one's condition through one's own efforts.

self-improvement
n
the improvement of one's status, position, education, etc., by one's own efforts
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Noun1.self-improvement - the act of improving yourself
auto-suggestion, autosuggestion, self-suggestion - a system for self-improvement developed by Emile Coue which was popular in the 1920s and 1930s
improvement - the act of improving something; "their improvements increased the value of the property"
reform - self-improvement in behavior or morals by abandoning some vice; "the family rejoiced in the drunkard's reform"
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self-improvement [ˌselfɪmˈpruːvmənt] Nautosuperación f


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If you are still capable of self-improvement, of which I am frankly unconvinced, you will surely return to London a wiser man.
Now do me the justice to observe that I am doing all I can towards self-improvement, and that you have a light thrown on those household implements which, when you only saw them as in a glass darkly, you were hastily--I must say hastily--inclined to depreciate.
 
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