melioration

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

From BusinessWeek • Nov. 22, 2011

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

Do not let the dying die: hold them back to this world, until you have charged their ear and heart with this message to other spiritual societies, announcing the melioration of our planet.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 by Various

But the seeds from a young tree, having itself the tendency to melioration, are more likely to produce improved sorts.

From American Pomology Apples by Warder, J. A.

As the two great causes of the melioration in the lot of the slaves since the establishment of our Independence, I should set down: 1.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 by Various