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What does melioration mean?

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Noun
  1. (archaic) An improvement, betterment or amelioration
  2. (linguistics) The process in which a term gains a more positive connotation over time
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That sense of melioration, strong in many Americans, that things can be accomplished for the good of others, is ultimately repulsive to Thayler's distinct moral sensibility.
And every where her influence is felt, in the melioration of the public mind, as in the limited circle at the home fire-side.
On that day ministers communicated their plans for the melioration of Irish suffering.
Every circumstance conspired to this melioration of the art in Florence as well as in other places.
It is no less an evidence that their condition was in a state of melioration.
Putick was mostly interested in hydrology of karst fields, problems of floods and their melioration.

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