meliorate

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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

Such men as Gladstone and Bright, who are seeking by wise legislation to remove or meliorate the evils of centuries of injustice.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 11 American Founders by Lord, John

These men left their first country to improve their condition; they quit their resting-place to meliorate it still more; fortune awaits them everywhere, but happiness they cannot attain.

From American Institutions and Their Influence by Tocqueville, Alexis de

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

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

Is it true that the lapse of time, the cessation of conflicting interests, the woful experience of the evils resulting from party rage, have had no sort of influence gradually to meliorate their minds?

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund