Hypertext Webster Gateway: "melioration"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Melioration \Mel`io*ra"tion\, n. [L. melioratio.]
The act or operation of meliorating, or the state of being
meliorated; improvement. --Bacon.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
melioration
n : the act of relieving ills and changing for the better [syn:
{amelioration}, {betterment}]
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