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The project was explicitly liberal and meliorative, of a piece with the work of journalists like Jacob Riis and early social workers like Jane Addams.

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2016

Anyone anticipating a moral, an expression of patriotism, a meliorative impulse, a political solution to Africa’s manifold problems or a neat tying up of plot lines will be disappointed.

From Washington Post

The requirements of decency are imperiously present in meliorative enterprise as in other lines of conduct, and exercise a selective surveillance over the details of conduct and management in any enterprise.

From Theory of the Leisure Class by Veblen, Thorstein