melioration

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

From BusinessWeek • Nov. 22, 2011

In this case, also, the air has never failed to be restored; but then it might be suspected that the melioration was produced by the addition of some more wholesome ingredient.

From Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air by Priestley, Joseph

Whether they do any thing to the Metal, after it is once brought to Fusion, and, if need be, melt it over again, to give it a melioration?

From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Oldenburg, Henry

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.

Incapacity of melioration is the only mortal distemper.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 by Various