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
He said it was too late to plant maize, and therefore he should sow turnips, which would help to meliorate and prepare it for next year.
From A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson by Tench, Watkin
They refine the mind, they elevate views, they meliorate passions and keep alive affections.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 5 November 1848 by Various
Their advance in the "habits and arts of civilization." rather encouraged perseverance in the laudable exertions still farther to meliorate their condition.
