melioration

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But professional reformation or melioration is usually an organic, incremental process.

From BusinessWeek • Nov. 22, 2011

We need hardly speak in the language of detestation of this species of obstructiveness, which prevents hundreds of valuable schemes of social melioration from being entered into.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 456 Volume 18, New Series, September 25, 1852 by Chambers, Robert

“No great melioration of the human condition was ever achieved without the concurrent effort of numbers; and no extended and well-directed association of moral influence was ever made in vain.”

From Select Temperance Tracts by American Tract Society

As the two great causes of the melioration in the lot of the slaves since the establishment of our Independence, I should set down: 1.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 by Various

In the melioration of the public service which has been so conspicuously in operation since 1877, Hayes must be rated the pioneer President.

From Historical Essays by Rhodes, James Ford