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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

The Skipper did his best to meliorate the harsh native methods with dumb things.

From The Sea and the Jungle by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson

He did this very unwillingly, for it was his desire to do every thing in his power to meliorate the condition of his Protestant friends.

From Henry IV, Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

These men left their first country to improve their condition; they quit their resting-place to meliorate it still more; fortune awaits them everywhere, but happiness they cannot attain.

From American Institutions and Their Influence by Alexis de Tocqueville

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

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.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

Among the better classes conventionality has, doubtless, somewhat meliorated their condition.

From The Land of Thor by J. Ross (John Ross) Browne

Though meliorated much since it first gave birth to man, it is not now fitted to nurture beings as refined as it will be centuries hence.

From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Allen Putnam

We pass over the administration of Geary, the third of the Kansas Governors,—a period in which the ravages of the marauders were continued, but under meliorated circumstances.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858 by Various

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

I trust that a brighter future is to come, not from the desolation, but from gradual, meliorating changes of the present.

From Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American by Charles William Eliot

She is peculiarly adapted to carry forward enterprises which have to do with meliorating the condition of society.

From True Woman, The A Series of Discourses by Justin D. Fulton

We thought that they were capable of receiving and meliorating, and above all of preserving, the accessions of science and literature, as the order of Providence should successively produce them.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Perhaps next in importance in meliorating the condition of the slaves, is the adoption of regulations for their religious instruction, and the education of their children.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 by Various