melioration

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

From BusinessWeek • Nov. 22, 2011

The cause of social melioration needs a union of hearts and hands.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 427 Volume 17, New Series, March 6, 1852 by Chambers, Robert

Every age seems to be productive of some great genius peculiarly adapted to the accomplishment of some great design, connected either with the advancement of learning, or the melioration of the moral condition of mankind.

From The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various

And every where her influence is felt, in the melioration of the public mind, as in the limited circle at the home fire-side.

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

Population does not increase, and the thinly-scattered inhabitants are too much absorbed in the cares of self-defence even to attempt any melioration of their condition.

From American Institutions and Their Influence by Tocqueville, Alexis de