melioration

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

From BusinessWeek • Nov. 22, 2011

And every where her influence is felt, in the melioration of the public mind, as in the limited circle at the home fire-side.

From Graham's Magazine, Vol XXXIII, No. 6, December 1848 by Various

We need hardly speak in the language of detestation of this species of obstructiveness, which prevents hundreds of valuable schemes of social melioration from being entered into.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 456 Volume 18, New Series, September 25, 1852 by Chambers, Robert

In my observations upon slavery as it has existed in this country, and as it now exists, I have expressed no opinion of the mode of its extinguishment or melioration.

From The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Webster, Daniel

The present constitution of the Union was formed at a later period than those of the majority of the states, and it may have derived some melioration from past experience.

From American Institutions and Their Influence by Tocqueville, Alexis de