melioration
Example Sentences
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But professional reformation or melioration is usually an organic, incremental process.
From BusinessWeek ● Nov. 22, 2011
This spirit of melioration is constantly alive in the American republics, without compromising their tranquillity; the ambition of power yields to the less refined and less dangerous love of comfort.
From American Institutions and Their Influence by Alexis de Tocqueville
Other things, equally if not more contributive to human melioration, are less distinctly in expectation.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 429 Volume 17, New Series, March 20, 1852 by William Chambers
In my observations upon slavery as it has existed in this country, and as it now exists, I have expressed no opinion of the mode of its extinguishment or melioration.
From The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Daniel Webster
By parliamentary enactments, by colonial arrangements, by appeals to the judgment and feelings of planters, and by various other means, a certain degree of melioration may be secured.
From Thoughts on African Colonization by William Lloyd Garrison
