melioration

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

From BusinessWeek • Nov. 22, 2011

Prior to the agitation of this subject of abolition, there was a progressive melioration in the condition of the slaves—schools of instruction were opened by humane and religious persons.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 by Various

In this case, also, the air has never failed to be restored; but then it might be suspected that the melioration was produced by the addition of some more wholesome ingredient.

From Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air by Priestley, Joseph

Whether they do any thing to the Metal, after it is once brought to Fusion, and, if need be, melt it over again, to give it a melioration?

From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Oldenburg, Henry

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