melioration

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

From BusinessWeek • Nov. 22, 2011

I consider the absolute and unconditional interdiction of this article among these people as the first and great step in their melioration.

From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 3, part 1: Andrew Jackson (Second Term) by Richardson, James D. (James Daniel)

"The condition of mankind is in a state of melioration, as far as misery arises from ignorance, for as the world grows older it must grow wiser, if wisdom arises from experience."

From Answer to Dr. Priestley's Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever by Turner, Matthew

All is quiet in Holland and Belgium; and all is awaiting the melioration which time and wisdom must bring.

From Graham's Magazine, Vol XXXIII, No. 6, December 1848 by Various

They shared in the general melioration of the age.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 by Various