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
Some years ago several pious individuals undertook to meliorate the condition of the prisons.
From American Institutions and Their Influence by Tocqueville, Alexis de
Kindness never fails to soften and meliorate his feelings, and harshness, injury, and contempt to harden and blunt them.
From The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe
The duty devolved upon me, to seek to meliorate their sad condition, as degraded and emaciated, wandering in ignorance, and wearing away a short existence in one continued succession of hardships in procuring food.
The war concluded, his attention was directed to Italy, and he sought to meliorate the condition of that country; but Austria would not hear even of the discussion of Italian affairs.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 by Various
