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

It is not amended institutions, it is not improved education, it is not another selection of individuals for union, that can meliorate the said result, but the basis of the union must be changed.

From Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. by Fuller, Margaret

Rather let us say that that is very natural which nature permits us to meliorate in her handiwork.

From The Training of a Public Speaker by Kleiser, Grenville

His father was much pleased to see his son endeavour to make himself agreeable in ladies’ society; he thought it augured a good sign, and would be conducive to meliorate and refine his manners.

From Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact by Comfield, Amelia Stratton

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