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Amelioration

Amelioration \A*mel`io*ra"tion\, n. [Cf. F. am['e]lioration.] The act of ameliorating, or the state of being ameliorated; making or becoming better; improvement; melioration. ``Amelioration of human affairs.''
--J. S. Mill.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
amelioration

1650s, from French amélioration, from Old French ameillorer (12c.), from a "to" (see ad-) + meillior (Modern French meìlleur) "to better," from Late Latin meliorare "improve," from Latin melior "better," perhaps originally "stronger," and related to Greek mala "very, very much," from PIE *mel- "strong, great" (see multi-).

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amelioration

n. 1 The act of making better. 2 an improvement

WordNet
amelioration

n. the act of relieving ills and changing for the better [syn: melioration, betterment]

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Amelioration

Amelioration may refer to:

  • Amelioration patterns, a software design pattern
  • Amelioration Act 1798, a statute enacted in the Leeward Islands regarding the treatment of slaves
  • Rapid climatic amelioration, used in geology to denote a major change from glacial to interglacial stages, specifically regarding transitions in the oxygen isotope ratio cycle
  • An alternative name for land improvement
  • A specific type of semantic change – the introduction of positive connotations or removal of negative ones for a word or expression

Usage examples of "amelioration".

The ideal demand for some sort of individual and social amelioration has always accompanied even their vainest flights of patriotic prophecy.

The amelioration promised to aliens and to future Americans was to possess its moral and social aspects.

That war and its resulting policy of extra-territorial expansion, so far from hindering the process of domestic amelioration, availed, from the sheer force of the national aspirations it aroused, to give a tremendous impulse to the work of national reform.

A policy, intelligently informed by the desire to maintain a joint process of individual and social amelioration, should be able to keep a democracy sound and whole both in sentiment and in idea.

It is absurd to discuss American local governments as agents of individual and social amelioration until they begin to meet their most essential and ordinary responsibilities in a more satisfactory manner.

The labor unions deserve to be favored, because they are the most effective machinery which has as yet been forged for the economic and social amelioration of the laboring class.

The American faith in education is by way of being credulous and superstitious, not because it seeks individual and social amelioration by what may be called an educational process, but because the proposed means of education are too conscious, too direct, and too superficial.

Thus the sincere definite decision that the experiment was necessary, would probably do more for American moral and social amelioration than would the specific measures actually adopted and tried.

But to conclude from any such admissions that a systematic policy of promoting individual and national amelioration should be abandoned in wholly unnecessary.

The nation becomes an enlarged individual whose special purpose is that of human amelioration, and in whose life every individual should find some particular but essential function.

In both cases amelioration is a matter of intelligent experimental contrivance based upon the nature of immediate conditions and equipped with every available resource and weapon.

How may we be faithful to that ideal of justice toward our inferior brethren, which underlies all humanitarian effort, and lack nothing in fidelity to Science to whose achievements we reverently look for the amelioration of the human race?

Whether the procedure pertain to medicine or surgery, so long as the amelioration of the patient is the one purpose kept in view, IT IS LEGITIMATE TREATMENT.

Surely, in these names, and such as these, there can be no uplift or inspiration to young men toward that unselfish service and earnest work which alone shall help toward the amelioration of the world.

So long as the amelioration of the patient is the one purpose kept in view, it is legitimate treatment.