amelioration

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  1. noun The act or an instance of ameliorating.
  2. noun The state of being ameliorated; improvement.

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  • As his malady did not show symptoms of amelioration, Elias had him removed from the Convent of St. Mary of the Angels to Foligno, in hopes that change of air might be of service to him. —  The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi
  • This is the great error, which cannot be compromised with, which is susceptible of no amelioration or modification, like a disease which admits no remedy and no palliative but the caustic which shall totally eradicate it. —  Select Speeches of Daniel Webster
  • The greatest caution will, indeed, be required, as we have premised, in touching on so delicate a subject as the amelioration of the possessions of an ally: but the field for the exercise of political sagacity is wide and inviting in this portion of the globe; and Mr. Gell, and all other writers who interest us, however remotely, in its extraordinary capabilities, deserve well of the British empire. —  Life of Lord Byron
  • A visionary who had no other idea than the proximity of the last judgment, would not have had this care for the amelioration of man, and would not have given utterance to the finest moral teaching that humanity has received. —  The Life of Jesus
  • This amelioration is a necessary effect of the laws of nature; for, by the law of sensibility, man as invincibly tends to render himself happy as the flame to mount, the stone to descend, or the water to find its level. —  The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature
 

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  1. = French amelioration; from the verb.
 

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/əmiljəˈreɪʃən/
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