melioration
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But professional reformation or melioration is usually an organic, incremental process.
From BusinessWeek ● Nov. 22, 2011
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 Walter Thornbury
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 Robert Chambers
Prior to the agitation of this subject of abolition, there was a progressive melioration in the condition of the slaves—schools of instruction were opened by humane and religious persons.
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 by Various
It must be shown that it is right, though imperfect,—that it is not only by possibility susceptible of improvement, but that it contains in it a principle tending to its melioration.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
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