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Not merely melioristic though it often tries to pretend it is.

From Salon • Aug. 20, 2012

In 16 chapters, two volumes, 924 pages, he takes a quick, keen look at the economic world-scene, comes to the melioristic conclusion that "this adventure may continue and our race survive."

From Time Magazine Archive

It is pluralistic, not monistic; melioristic, not optimistic.

From Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics by Alexander, Archibald B. C.

Hence, against these two ways of accepting the universe, he maintains the pragmatic faith which is at once theistic, pluralistic, and melioristic.

From Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics by Alexander, Archibald B. C.

Psychiatric work has undoubtedly intensified the hunger for a more objective and yet melioristic and really idealistic philosophical conception of reality, such as has been formulated in the modern concept of integration.

From A Psychiatric Milestone Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921 by New York Hospital. Society