meliorate

Example Sentences

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“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

There is room enough in this country for us; and if they be our friends, let them meliorate our condition here.

From Thoughts on African Colonization by Garrison, William Lloyd

Lords deliver lydeum lectures; ladies patronize ragged schools; committees of duchesses meliorate the condition of needlewomen.

From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

He did this very unwillingly, for it was his desire to do every thing in his power to meliorate the condition of his Protestant friends.

From Henry IV, Makers of History by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

Will this rapid intellectual progress tend ultimately to meliorate the condition of mankind?

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)