melioration

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

From BusinessWeek • Nov. 22, 2011

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.

As the two great causes of the melioration in the lot of the slaves since the establishment of our Independence, I should set down: 1.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 by Various

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

He demanded seven hundred pounds for the ground, and to be excused paying anything for the melioration of the rest of his ground that he was to keep.

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter