meliorate

Example Sentences

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“I consider such easy vehicles of knowledge, more happily calculated than any other, to preserve the liberty, stimulate the industry and meliorate the morals of an enlightened and free People.”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 15, 2021

The face of the planet cools and dries, the races meliorate, and man is born.

From The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse by Various

These are the men of active wisdom, who lead armies to victory, and kingdoms to prosperity; or discover and improve the sciences, which meliorate and adorn the condition of humanity.

From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

Rather let us say that that is very natural which nature permits us to meliorate in her handiwork.

From The Training of a Public Speaker by Kleiser, Grenville

His father was much pleased to see his son endeavour to make himself agreeable in ladies’ society; he thought it augured a good sign, and would be conducive to meliorate and refine his manners.

From Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact by Comfield, Amelia Stratton