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

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 Stowe, Harriet Beecher

The duty devolved upon me, to seek to meliorate their sad condition, as degraded and emaciated, wandering in ignorance, and wearing away a short existence in one continued succession of hardships in procuring food.

From The Substance of a Journal During a Residence at the Red River Colony, British North America and Frequent Excursions Among the North-West American Indians, In the Years 1820, 1821, 1822, 1823. by West, John

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 Paine, Thomas

They refine the mind, they elevate views, they meliorate passions and keep alive affections.

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 5 November 1848 by Various