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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

To meliorate the condition of this almost countless multitude of our fellow-creatures, is among the first duties of every good man.

From Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete by William Hogan

Kindness never fails to soften and meliorate his feelings, and harshness, injury, and contempt to harden and blunt them.

From The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

I do not find that a succession of crops has yet been attempted; surely it would help to meliorate and improve the soil.

From A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson by Watkin Tench

Such men as Gladstone and Bright, who are seeking by wise legislation to remove or meliorate the evils of centuries of injustice.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 11 American Founders by John Lord

In this manner soils are constantly changing upon the same spot; sometimes they are meliorated, at other times impoverished.

From Theory of the Earth, Volume 2 (of 4) by James Hutton

Now this Draconian code has been so meliorated and softened by the diffusion of mercy and humanity as to take life for life only; is pleading powerfully for the abolition of the death-penalty altogether.

From Tablets by Amos Bronson Alcott

Nevertheless, man's ever active ingenuity constantly increases the number of meliorated contrivances.

From By Water to the Columbian Exposition by Johanna S. Wisthaler

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

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

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

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

Beginning by formulating plans for meliorating the condition of the slaves on his plantation in French Guiana, his philanthropic thoughts soon turned homeward.

From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne

Blount's one meliorating softness during the years of exile had manifested itself in an effort to keep track of Debbleby.

From The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush by Francis Lynde

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