melioration

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But professional reformation or melioration is usually an organic, incremental process.

From BusinessWeek • Nov. 22, 2011

“No great melioration of the human condition was ever achieved without the concurrent effort of numbers; and no extended and well-directed association of moral influence was ever made in vain.”

From Select Temperance Tracts by American Tract Society

In respect to the instruction and melioration of the situation of the common people, we find as yet no attention whatever paid to these important subjects.

From Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations by Robinson, Therese Albertine Louise von Jacob

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

The act of ameliorating, or the state of being ameliorated; making or becoming better; improvement; melioration.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah