melioration
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But professional reformation or melioration is usually an organic, incremental process.
From BusinessWeek ● Nov. 22, 2011
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 James Ford Rhodes
May every sun that shines on your green island see the annihilation of an abuse, and the birth of an embryon of melioration!
From Percy Bysshe Shelley as a Philosopher and Reformer by Charles W. Frederickson
But a memorable melioration of the state of man will carry some degree of conviction to the hearts of all.
From Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author by William Godwin
