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Melioration

noun
1.
The act of relieving ills and changing for the better.  Synonyms: amelioration, betterment.
2.
A condition superior to an earlier condition.  Synonym: improvement.
3.
The linguistic process in which over a period of time a word grows more positive in connotation or more elevated in meaning.





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... Murray, then Solicitor-General, afterwards Lord Mansfield, are of no small weight in themselves, and they are authority by being judicially adopted. His ideas go to the growing melioration of the law, by making its liberality keep pace with the demands of justice and the actual concerns of the world: not restricting the infinitely diversified occasions of men and the rules of natural ...
— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. XI. (of 12) • Edmund Burke


Words linked to "Melioration" :   betterment, status, meliorate, reformation, restoration, improvement, refurbishment, development, decline, renovation, drift, condition


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