melioration
Example Sentences
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But professional reformation or melioration is usually an organic, incremental process.
From BusinessWeek ● Nov. 22, 2011
They shared in the general melioration of the age.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 by Various
This spirit of melioration is constantly alive in the American republics, without compromising their tranquillity; the ambition of power yields to the less refined and less dangerous love of comfort.
From American Institutions and Their Influence by Alexis de Tocqueville
The cause of social melioration needs a union of hearts and hands.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 427 Volume 17, New Series, March 6, 1852 by Robert Chambers
And every where her influence is felt, in the melioration of the public mind, as in the limited circle at the home fire-side.
From Graham's Magazine, Vol XXXIII, No. 6, December 1848 by Various
