melioration
Example Sentences
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But professional reformation or melioration is usually an organic, incremental process.
From BusinessWeek • Nov. 22, 2011
Do not let the dying die: hold them back to this world, until you have charged their ear and heart with this message to other spiritual societies, announcing the melioration of our planet.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 by Various
Incapacity of melioration is the only mortal distemper.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 by Various
“No great melioration of the human condition was ever achieved without the concurrent effort of numbers; and no extended and well-directed association of moral influence was ever made in vain.”
From Select Temperance Tracts by American Tract Society
They shared in the general melioration of the age.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 by Various
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