melioration

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

From BusinessWeek • Nov. 22, 2011

The friend of the people, it tends to free schools, a free press, a free government, the abolition of slavery, war, vice, and the melioration of society.

From Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology by Clarke, James Freeman

The great melioration of human society which modern times exhibit, is mainly due to the incomplete substitution of the system of voluntary labor for the one of servile labor, which has already taken place.

From American Eloquence, Volume 3 Studies In American Political History (1897) by Johnston, Alexander

All is quiet in Holland and Belgium; and all is awaiting the melioration which time and wisdom must bring.

From Graham's Magazine, Vol XXXIII, No. 6, December 1848 by Various

In this case, also, the air has never failed to be restored; but then it might be suspected that the melioration was produced by the addition of some more wholesome ingredient.

From Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air by Priestley, Joseph