melioration

Peace followed victory, and the melioration of the condition of the enemy followed peace.

May every sun that shines on your green island see the annihilation of an abuse, and the birth of an embryon of melioration!

Every circumstance conspired to this melioration of the art in Florence as well as in other places.

But the seeds from a young tree, having itself the tendency to melioration, are more likely to produce improved sorts.

The principle of the one, in short, was melioration; of the other, conservation.