melioration

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

From BusinessWeek • Nov. 22, 2011

The act of ameliorating, or the state of being ameliorated; making or becoming better; improvement; melioration.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

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 Burke, Edmund

To provide the additional acreage needed for crop expansion, large-scale programs of land reclamation and melioration have been executed.

From Area Handbook for Albania by Elpern, Sarah Jane

Other things, equally if not more contributive to human melioration, are less distinctly in expectation.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 429 Volume 17, New Series, March 20, 1852 by Chambers, William