meliorate
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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
That we have greatly improved on the opinions and practices of our ancestors, is quite as certain as that there will be occasion to meliorate the legacy of morals which we shall transmit to posterity.
From The Water-Witch or, the Skimmer of the Seas by James Fenimore Cooper
Lords deliver lydeum lectures; ladies patronize ragged schools; committees of duchesses meliorate the condition of needlewomen.
From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Now, our Government has never departed from its purpose and its policy, to meliorate the law of nations, so as to extirpate this business of private war on the ocean.
From Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York by A. F. Warburton
I have no interest distinct from that which has a tendency to meliorate the situation of mankind.
From The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 by Thomas Paine
The rice grounds are meliorated merely by letting water into them; but for the other grains, where the soil requires it, they use dung, night-soil, ashes, and the like.
In them were stated various mitigatory facts in their favor; and the meliorated character of the criminal code at home was also strongly urged.
From Famous Islands and Memorable Voyages by Anonymous
You are right in thinking that this first impulse of 1789, has, notwithstanding our misfortunes, greatly meliorated the situation of the French people.
From Memoirs of General Lafayette : with an Account of His Visit to America and His Reception By the People of the United States; From His Arrival, August 15th, to the Celebration at Yorktown, October 19th, 1824. by Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette
The human heart seems to be meliorated and softened by age.
From Anna St. Ives by Thomas Holcroft
Such Men there always have been & always will be, till human Nature itself shall be substantially meliorated.
From The Writings of Samuel Adams - Volume 4 by Harry Alonzo Cushing
It was a meliorating thought, and while it held I could be less revengeful.
From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Francis Lynde
Where shall we trace him next, the migrant man, To try once more his meliorating plan?
From The Columbiad by Joel Barlow
Griswold suffered a sudden return to the meliorating humanities.
From The Price by Francis Lynde
Yet the pious admonitions of her father, and the example of her cousin, assisted by the meliorating influence of time, had a gradual though slow effect, in changing grief into meek resignation.
From The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel by Jane West
As with everything else, so it is with fruits, some of which were naturally indifferent or even inedible, until subjected to the meliorating influences of high culture, of selection, and of improvement.
From American Pomology Apples by J. A. Warder
