meliorate

“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

The face of the planet cools and dries, the races meliorate, and man is born.

From The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse by Various

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

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

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

Tupia had much meliorated the root of the coccos, by giving them a long dressing in his country oven, but they were so small that we did not think them an object for the ship.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 by Robert Kerr

The love of power was his ruling passion;—with him no gentle or generous sentiment meliorated the harshness of authority, or directed it to acts of beneficence.

From A Sicilian Romance by Ann Ward Radcliffe

But it is the author's law and the author's order that are in dispute—his transmutation of species, the higher classes emerging from and partly annihilating the lower, under meliorated conditions of being.

From An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges by Anonymous

It has greatly meliorated the condition of the laborious part, that is to say, of the mass of every community, by procuring for them a day of weekly rest.

From Evidence of Christianity by William Paley

Their opposition will only multiply its millions of human victims; their own satellites will catch it, and the condition of man through the civilized world, will be finally and greatly meliorated.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph

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

That period, however, was only eight months distant, and she pleased herself with the intention of meliorating her plan in the meantime, and preparing to put it in practice.

From Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 1 by Fanny Burney

But to undertake expeditions with a design of civilizing the world, and meliorating its condition, is a noble object.

From Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook : with an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods by Andrew Kippis

One of his meliorating comforts had been the thought that however bitter his own disappointment was, Elinor at least was happy.

From The Grafters by Francis Lynde