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

We then fled to the country, and there only time could meliorate the deep-consuming grief by which he had become wholly possessed.

From The Devil's Elixir Vol. I (of 2) by Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus)

Will this rapid intellectual progress tend ultimately to meliorate the condition of mankind?

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)

The war concluded, his attention was directed to Italy, and he sought to meliorate the condition of that country; but Austria would not hear even of the discussion of Italian affairs.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 by Various

There is room enough in this country for us; and if they be our friends, let them meliorate our condition here.

From Thoughts on African Colonization by Garrison, William Lloyd