melioration

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

From BusinessWeek • Nov. 22, 2011

While disappointments and misfortunes are often the origin of insanity, a sudden melioration in circumstances, and unexpected pleasing intelligence have been also known to derange the intellects.

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

In these small communities, which are never agitated by the desire of aggrandizement or the cares of self-defence, all public authority and private energy is employed in internal melioration.

From American Institutions and Their Influence by Tocqueville, Alexis de

Other things, equally if not more contributive to human melioration, are less distinctly in expectation.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 429 Volume 17, New Series, March 20, 1852 by Chambers, William

May every sun that shines on your green island see the annihilation of an abuse, and the birth of an embryon of melioration!

From Percy Bysshe Shelley as a Philosopher and Reformer by Frederickson, Charles W.