melioration

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

From BusinessWeek • Nov. 22, 2011

The cause of social melioration needs a union of hearts and hands.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 427 Volume 17, New Series, March 6, 1852 by Chambers, Robert

The friend of the people, it tends to free schools, a free press, a free government, the abolition of slavery, war, vice, and the melioration of society.

From Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology by Clarke, James Freeman

In respect to the instruction and melioration of the situation of the common people, we find as yet no attention whatever paid to these important subjects.

From Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations by Robinson, Therese Albertine Louise von Jacob

In this case, also, the air has never failed to be restored; but then it might be suspected that the melioration was produced by the addition of some more wholesome ingredient.

From Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air by Priestley, Joseph