melioration

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

From BusinessWeek • Nov. 22, 2011

"The condition of mankind is in a state of melioration, as far as misery arises from ignorance, for as the world grows older it must grow wiser, if wisdom arises from experience."

From Answer to Dr. Priestley's Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever by Turner, Matthew

The act of ameliorating, or the state of being ameliorated; making or becoming better; improvement; melioration.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

But the seeds from a young tree, having itself the tendency to melioration, are more likely to produce improved sorts.

From American Pomology Apples by Warder, J. A.

In these small communities, which are never agitated by the desire of aggrandizement or the cares of self-defence, all public authority and private energy is employed in internal melioration.

From American Institutions and Their Influence by Tocqueville, Alexis de