Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who or that which meliorates or makes better.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who meliorates.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who meliorates; an improver.

Etymologies

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meliorate +‎ -or

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Examples

  • With the banks of my meadow ditches, I have greatly enriched my upland fields, those which I intend to rest for a few years, I constantly sow with red clover, which is the greatest meliorator of our lands.

    Letters from an American Farmer J. Hector St. John de Cr��vecoeur 1774

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