melioration

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

From BusinessWeek • Nov. 22, 2011

The friend of the people, it tends to free schools, a free press, a free government, the abolition of slavery, war, vice, and the melioration of society.

From Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology by Clarke, James Freeman

Incapacity of melioration is the only mortal distemper.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 by Various

Prior to the agitation of this subject of abolition, there was a progressive melioration in the condition of the slaves—schools of instruction were opened by humane and religious persons.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 by Various

He demanded seven hundred pounds for the ground, and to be excused paying anything for the melioration of the rest of his ground that he was to keep.

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter