melioration
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But professional reformation or melioration is usually an organic, incremental process.
From BusinessWeek ● Nov. 22, 2011
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
He demanded seven hundred pounds for the ground, and to be excused paying anything for the melioration of the rest of his ground that he was to keep.
From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter
In these small communities, which are never agitated by the desire of aggrandizement or the cares of self-defence, all public authority and private energy is employed in internal melioration.
From American Institutions and Their Influence by Tocqueville, Alexis de
"The condition of mankind is in a state of melioration, as far as misery arises from ignorance, for as the world grows older it must grow wiser, if wisdom arises from experience."
From Answer to Dr. Priestley's Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever by Turner, Matthew
