improvability
- a word derived from improve.
Example Sentences
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Peterson told me that white adopters of young Native Americans in the American South were following Thomas Jefferson’s ideas about the influence of environment and the improvability of Native people.
From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2016
Ms. Nasar introduces us to Alfred Marshall, whose own metamorphosis from scholarship boy to Cambridge don informed his “optimism about the improvability of man and his circumstances.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2011
The thought of the soul's improvability is well adapted to quicken torpid virtue and to revive drooping aspirations.
From The Jericho Road by Adkins, W. Bion
I remembered that years ago the sight of similar things inspired Clarkson with his strong faith in the improvability of the African race.
From The Freedmen's Book by Child, Lydia Maria Francis
We are coming to believe that the most significant fact about man and his civilization is their improvability.
From Prize Orations of the Intercollegiate Peace Association by Weston, Stephen Francis
