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
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
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 Fuller, Margaret
To meliorate the condition of this almost countless multitude of our fellow-creatures, is among the first duties of every good man.
From Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete by Hogan, William
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
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