meliorate

“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 William Hogan

There was nothing more than a pleasing variety to recreate and instruct the mind, to enrich the imagination, and to meliorate the heart.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

I do not find that a succession of crops has yet been attempted; surely it would help to meliorate and improve the soil.

From A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson by Watkin Tench

Some years ago several pious individuals undertook to meliorate the condition of the prisons.

From American Institutions and Their Influence by Alexis de Tocqueville

So that Nature hereby is only advanced and meliorated, and the Light thereof, or human Reason, by being kept within its due bounds, and regulated by a superior Light, is only made useful.

From Dialogues on the Supersensual Life by Jakob Böhme

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 James Hutton

Among the better classes conventionality has, doubtless, somewhat meliorated their condition.

From The Land of Thor by J. Ross (John Ross) Browne

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 Thomas Jefferson Randolph

It has greatly meliorated the condition of the laborious part, that is to say, of the mass of every community, by procuring for them a day of weekly rest.

From Evidence of Christianity by William Paley

Where shall we trace him next, the migrant man, To try once more his meliorating plan?

From The Columbiad by Joel Barlow

One of his meliorating comforts had been the thought that however bitter his own disappointment was, Elinor at least was happy.

From The Grafters by Francis Lynde

And many a thousand summers My apples ripened well, And light from meliorating stars With firmer glory fell.

From May-Day and Other Pieces by Ralph Waldo Emerson

That period, however, was only eight months distant, and she pleased herself with the intention of meliorating her plan in the meantime, and preparing to put it in practice.

From Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 1 by Fanny Burney

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 Jane West