Better
Better adjective - (comparative of `good') superior to another (of the same class or set or kind) in excellence or quality or desirability or suitability; more highly skilled than another.
Higher
Higher adjective - Being far along in development.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Note that 'enlightened' used in such context, is sometimes a loaded word, often used to indicate a higher or better state or level of understanding.
Source: Romanticism Versus Enlightenment - Boss characters are simply a few levels higher and better equipped than you, but keep their stats, and equipment (which is genereally on par with yours by the time they join).
Source: Redemption Demotion -
By the first decade of 13th century, in Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach, Parzifal's calling to the Grail Quest is explicitly a calling to a higher and better world than the normal quests of Arthur's court.
Source: Myth / King Arthur
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