melioration

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

From BusinessWeek • Nov. 22, 2011

Incapacity of melioration is the only mortal distemper.

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

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

The great melioration of human society which modern times exhibit, is mainly due to the incomplete substitution of the system of voluntary labor for the one of servile labor, which has already taken place.

From American Eloquence, Volume 3 Studies In American Political History (1897) by Johnston, Alexander