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

To this he added personal efforts to meliorate their condition, which resulted in promises from Turkish officials and the Patriarch of better treatment, promises that were by no means fulfilled.

From History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II. by Anderson, Rufus

Among the various improvements which struggling humanity has gradually engrafted on the belligerent code, none have contributed more to diminish the calamities of war, than those which meliorate the condition of prisoners.

From The Life of George Washington, Vol. 2 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by Marshall, John

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)

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