melioration

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

From BusinessWeek • Nov. 22, 2011

To provide the additional acreage needed for crop expansion, large-scale programs of land reclamation and melioration have been executed.

From Area Handbook for Albania by Elpern, Sarah Jane

May every sun that shines on your green island see the annihilation of an abuse, and the birth of an embryon of melioration!

From Percy Bysshe Shelley as a Philosopher and Reformer by Frederickson, Charles W.

It is not mutual in effect, for it does not provide for a melioration of our obligations in internal differences now prevailing in, or which may hereafter arise in, Great Britain.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy 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