meliorate
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
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Etymology
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
Example Sentences
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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
We then fled to the country, and there only time could meliorate the deep-consuming grief by which he had become wholly possessed.
From The Devil's Elixir Vol. I (of 2) by Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus)
It is no less the characteristic of real friendship to endeavour to meliorate than to preserve from sufferings.
From A Series of Letters in Defence of Divine Revelation by Ballou, Hosea
These men left their first country to improve their condition; they quit their resting-place to meliorate it still more; fortune awaits them everywhere, but happiness they cannot attain.
From American Institutions and Their Influence by Tocqueville, Alexis de
He did this very unwillingly, for it was his desire to do every thing in his power to meliorate the condition of his Protestant friends.
From Henry IV, Makers of History by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
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