meliorate
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
Other Word Forms
- meliorable adjective
- meliorative adjective
- meliorator noun
- unmeliorated adjective
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
Rather let us say that that is very natural which nature permits us to meliorate in her handiwork.
From The Training of a Public Speaker by Kleiser, Grenville
I have no interest distinct from that which has a tendency to meliorate the situation of mankind.
From The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 by Paine, Thomas
Is it true that the lapse of time, the cessation of conflicting interests, the woful experience of the evils resulting from party rage, have had no sort of influence gradually to meliorate their minds?
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
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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