Melioration

Instances, rare instances, of such "melioration" and of such "schools of instruction," I doubt not there have been: but, I am confident, that the ❋ American Anti-Slavery Society (N/A)

Always the opponent of sane social reforms which Socialists deride as "melioration" or as futile attempts to shore up an obsolete system, it has consistently disassociated itself from such men as Lord Shaftesbury, who did more to better the conditions of the working classes than anyone who has ever lived. ❋ Nesta H. Webster (1918)

You might perhaps say "melioration," but "improvement" is the proper word. ' ❋ Sarah Tytler (1870)

The various terms they have tried -- "Islamic extremism," "Islamism," "Islamofascism" -- have fallen short of both clarity and melioration. ❋ Unknown (2009)

James G. Frazer, in "The G.lden Bough," demonstrated that the connection between charismatic leadership and the melioration of suffering was historically a close one: many primitive peoples believed that the magical virtues of a priest-king could guarantee the soil's fertility and that such a leader could therefore alleviate one of the most elementary forms of suffering, hunger. ❋ Unknown (2008)

On the binary-melioration scale, the digicognizence of the most promising genus (locally referred to as Homo Sapiens Sapiens) has progressed from 6 (see report Sol-4960) to the current value of 21. ❋ Unknown (2005)

What does seem surprising is that in Academe, unlike “Real Life” continuing experience and maturation does not produce the melioration of radical viewpoints. ❋ Unknown (2007)

But Aristotle seems to be against this opinion, who hath observed that oil grows sweeter by being kept in vessels not exactly filled, and afterwards ascribes this melioration to the air; for more air, and therefore more powerful to produce the effect, flows into a vessel not well filled. ❋ Unknown (2004)

One major exception to such promises of melioration, of course, involves the resurgent focus on the relatively lower IQ scores of African Americans. ❋ DAVID M. GORDON (2003)

Their favors will be most gratefully remembered, and I shall feel myself under additional obligations to labor for the melioration of the condition of the poor and suffering _slave_. ❋ Austin Steward (N/A)

Do not let the dying die: hold them back to this world, until you have charged their ear and heart with this message to other spiritual societies, announcing the melioration of our planet. ❋ Various (N/A)

Incapacity of melioration is the only mortal distemper. ❋ Various (N/A)

In despatches to Dayton, Seward asserted a twofold motive: "a sincere desire to co-operate with other progressive nations in the melioration of the rigours of maritime war," and "to remove every cause that any foreign Power could have for the recognition of the insurgents as a belligerent Power [259]." ❋ Ephraim Douglass Adams (N/A)

In this manner he was taken in a trap of his own making, as many a better and wiser man of the world has been, and daily is; and it was no melioration of his distress to think he had whelmed his associates in his ruin, and defeated the best and last hopes of his benefactress. ❋ Robert M. Bird (N/A)

It is not mutual in effect, for it does not provide for a melioration of _our_ obligations in internal differences now prevailing in, or which may hereafter arise in, Great ❋ Various (N/A)

meliorism is [fucking amazing]. ❋ Mmeellee (2010)

sixthfold pulled a [meliorism] when he defended david for liking [saitama] better than goku and then [kyle punch] a whole in the wall because you know bullying ❋ Notyourtypicalwitch (2020)

sixthfold pulled a [meliorism] when he defended david for liking [saitama] better than goku and then [kyle punch] a whole in the wall because you know bullying ❋ Notyourtypicalwitch (2020)

Guy: did you go to [Melior Community Academy]? Guy 2: [ye] I did...sadly Guy: no wonder you failed your [GCSEs] man ❋ Rick&Morty Lover123 (2019)