melioration

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

From BusinessWeek • Nov. 22, 2011

Incapacity of melioration is the only mortal distemper.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 by Various

It is no less an evidence that their condition was in a state of melioration.

From Dissertation on Slavery With a Proposal for the Gradual Abolition of it, in the State of Virginia by Tucker, St. George

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

In respect to the instruction and melioration of the situation of the common people, we find as yet no attention whatever paid to these important subjects.

From Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations by Robinson, Therese Albertine Louise von Jacob