meliorate
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“I consider such easy vehicles of knowledge, more happily calculated than any other, to preserve the liberty, stimulate the industry and meliorate the morals of an enlightened and free People.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2021
To meliorate the condition of this almost countless multitude of our fellow-creatures, is among the first duties of every good man.
From Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete by Hogan, William
To this he added personal efforts to meliorate their condition, which resulted in promises from Turkish officials and the Patriarch of better treatment, promises that were by no means fulfilled.
From History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II. by Anderson, Rufus
Kindness never fails to soften and meliorate his feelings, and harshness, injury, and contempt to harden and blunt them.
From The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe
The duty devolved upon me, to seek to meliorate their sad condition, as degraded and emaciated, wandering in ignorance, and wearing away a short existence in one continued succession of hardships in procuring food.
The strength of the stalk is also diffused by it through the leaves, and the whole mass becomes equally meliorated.
From Nicotiana Or The Smoker's and Snuff-Taker's Companion by Meller, Henry James
Tupia had much meliorated the root of the coccos, by giving them a long dressing in his country oven, but they were so small that we did not think them an object for the ship.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 by Kerr, Robert
Among the better classes conventionality has, doubtless, somewhat meliorated their condition.
From The Land of Thor by Browne, J. Ross (John Ross)
Their opposition will only multiply its millions of human victims; their own satellites will catch it, and the condition of man through the civilized world, will be finally and greatly meliorated.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson
In this manner soils are constantly changing upon the same spot; sometimes they are meliorated, at other times impoverished.
From Theory of the Earth, Volume 2 (of 4) by Hutton, James
Doubtless the most miserable of men, under the most oppressive government in the world, if allowed the ballot, would use it, if they could see any chance of thereby meliorating their condition.
From No Treason, Vol. VI. The Constitution of No Authority by Spooner, Lysander
She is peculiarly adapted to carry forward enterprises which have to do with meliorating the condition of society.
From True Woman, The A Series of Discourses by Fulton, Justin D.
Beginning by formulating plans for meliorating the condition of the slaves on his plantation in French Guiana, his philanthropic thoughts soon turned homeward.
From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)
Perhaps next in importance in meliorating the condition of the slaves, is the adoption of regulations for their religious instruction, and the education of their children.
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 by Various
Yet the pious admonitions of her father, and the example of her cousin, assisted by the meliorating influence of time, had a gradual though slow effect, in changing grief into meek resignation.
From The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel by West, Jane
