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

Rather let us say that that is very natural which nature permits us to meliorate in her handiwork.

From The Training of a Public Speaker by Kleiser, Grenville

Such men as Gladstone and Bright, who are seeking by wise legislation to remove or meliorate the evils of centuries of injustice.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 11 American Founders by Lord, John

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

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