melioration

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But professional reformation or melioration is usually an organic, incremental process.

From BusinessWeek • Nov. 22, 2011

The great melioration of human society which modern times exhibit, is mainly due to the incomplete substitution of the system of voluntary labor for the one of servile labor, which has already taken place.

From American Eloquence, Volume 3 Studies In American Political History (1897) by Johnston, Alexander

The cause of social melioration needs a union of hearts and hands.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 427 Volume 17, New Series, March 6, 1852 by Chambers, Robert

The act of ameliorating, or the state of being ameliorated; making or becoming better; improvement; melioration.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

It is not mutual in effect, for it does not provide for a melioration of our obligations in internal differences now prevailing in, or which may hereafter arise in, Great Britain.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various