meliorate
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
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Origin of meliorate
1545–55; < Latin meliōrātus (past participle of meliōrāre ) to make better, improve, equivalent to meliōr- (stem of melior ) better + -ātus -ate 1
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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
Such men as Gladstone and Bright, who are seeking by wise legislation to remove or meliorate the evils of centuries of injustice.
From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 11 American Founders by John Lord
They refine the mind, they elevate views, they meliorate passions and keep alive affections.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 5 November 1848 by Various
It is not amended institutions, it is not improved education, it is not another selection of individuals for union, that can meliorate the said result, but the basis of the union must be changed.
From Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. by Margaret Fuller
He said it was too late to plant maize, and therefore he should sow turnips, which would help to meliorate and prepare it for next year.
From A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson by Watkin Tench
Though meliorated much since it first gave birth to man, it is not now fitted to nurture beings as refined as it will be centuries hence.
From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Allen Putnam
The love of power was his ruling passion;—with him no gentle or generous sentiment meliorated the harshness of authority, or directed it to acts of beneficence.
From A Sicilian Romance by Ann Ward Radcliffe
The human heart seems to be meliorated and softened by age.
From Anna St. Ives by Thomas Holcroft
Their opposition will only multiply its millions of human victims; their own satellites will catch it, and the condition of man through the civilized world, will be finally and greatly meliorated.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
In them were stated various mitigatory facts in their favor; and the meliorated character of the criminal code at home was also strongly urged.
From Famous Islands and Memorable Voyages by Anonymous
Doubtless the most miserable of men, under the most oppressive government in the world, if allowed the ballot, would use it, if they could see any chance of thereby meliorating their condition.
From No Treason, Vol. VI. The Constitution of No Authority by Lysander Spooner
I trust that a brighter future is to come, not from the desolation, but from gradual, meliorating changes of the present.
From Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American by Charles William Eliot
That period, however, was only eight months distant, and she pleased herself with the intention of meliorating her plan in the meantime, and preparing to put it in practice.
From Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 1 by Fanny Burney
Advancing years presented a softening, meliorating, ripening influence.
From Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county. by Thomas Coleman
But to undertake expeditions with a design of civilizing the world, and meliorating its condition, is a noble object.
From Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook : with an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods by Andrew Kippis
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