meliorate

Example Sentences

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“I consider such easy vehicles of knowledge, more happily calculated than any other, to preserve the liberty, stimulate the industry and meliorate the morals of an enlightened and free People.”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 15, 2021

It is no less the characteristic of real friendship to endeavour to meliorate than to preserve from sufferings.

From A Series of Letters in Defence of Divine Revelation by Ballou, Hosea

I have no interest distinct from that which has a tendency to meliorate the situation of mankind.

From The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 by Paine, Thomas

The Skipper did his best to meliorate the harsh native methods with dumb things.

From The Sea and the Jungle by Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major)

These men left their first country to improve their condition; they quit their resting-place to meliorate it still more; fortune awaits them everywhere, but happiness they cannot attain.

From American Institutions and Their Influence by Tocqueville, Alexis de