melioration

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

From BusinessWeek • Nov. 22, 2011

By parliamentary enactments, by colonial arrangements, by appeals to the judgment and feelings of planters, and by various other means, a certain degree of melioration may be secured.

From Thoughts on African Colonization by Garrison, William Lloyd

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

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)

They shared in the general melioration of the age.

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