melioration

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

From BusinessWeek • Nov. 22, 2011

In the melioration of the public service which has been so conspicuously in operation since 1877, Hayes must be rated the pioneer President.

From Historical Essays by Rhodes, James Ford

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

It is not mutual in effect, for it does not provide for a melioration of our obligations in internal differences now prevailing in, or which may hereafter arise in, Great Britain.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

By parliamentary enactments, by colonial arrangements, by appeals to the judgment and feelings of planters, and by various other means, a certain degree of melioration may be secured.

From Thoughts on African Colonization by Garrison, William Lloyd