melioration

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

From BusinessWeek • Nov. 22, 2011

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

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

While disappointments and misfortunes are often the origin of insanity, a sudden melioration in circumstances, and unexpected pleasing intelligence have been also known to derange the intellects.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)

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