melioration
Example Sentences
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But professional reformation or melioration is usually an organic, incremental process.
From BusinessWeek • Nov. 22, 2011
It must be shown that it is right, though imperfect,—that it is not only by possibility susceptible of improvement, but that it contains in it a principle tending to its melioration.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
Incapacity of melioration is the only mortal distemper.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 by Various
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
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
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