NOUN
- the act of relieving ills and changing for the better
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a condition superior to an earlier condition
the new school represents a great improvement - the linguistic process in which over a period of time a word grows more positive in connotation or more elevated in meaning
How To Use melioration In A Sentence
- It would also provide a sound basis for targeting scarce resources and developing strategies for remediation and amelioration.
- Organized psychiatry must publicly articulate our vision, positions and commitment to the amelioration of human misery.
- The widespread problem of malnutrition is as much a concern to everyone as the efforts at its amelioration.
- 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. 365 tomorrows » 2005 » November : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
- Sebastian A: Amelioration of metabolic acidosis by dietary potassium restriction in hyperkalemic patients with chronic renal insufficiency. Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
- 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. Essays and Miscellanies
- If -- The oldest manuscripts read, "With a view to chastening (that is, since God's chastisement is with a view to your chastening, that is, disciplinary amelioration) endure patiently"; so Vulgate. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
- What does seem surprising is that in Academe, unlike “Real Life” continuing experience and maturation does not produce the melioration of radical viewpoints. The Volokh Conspiracy » Interesting Study on Professors’ Ideology:
- Since rural voters in industrialized countries rely more heavily on fossil fuels than urban voters, our prediction is that malapportioned political systems will have lower gasoline taxes, and less commitment to climate change amelioration, than systems with equitable representation of constituents. Matthew Yglesias » Malapportionment Is Destroying the Planet
- Many researchers, therefore, have amelioration of hyperalgesia and allodynia foremost in their minds as they hunt for new analgesics.
